OMSA should work with all shipped version of the firmware. This type of problem usually is indicative of the ipmi driver not being loaded or functional.
Wayne Weilnau Systems Management Technologist Dell | OpenManage Software Development Please consider the environment before printing this email. Confidentiality Notice | This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, immediately contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Andrew Lyon Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:43 AM To: Andrew Lyon; linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: OMSA Missing Sections? On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Matt Domsch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:27:13AM +0000, Andrew Lyon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As I previously mentioned I am working on a set of ebuilds for >> installing OMSA onto Gentoo linux, I've now tested my ebuilds and on >> the r200 server where I did the initial development they work >> perfectly, however on two other systems one of which is also a R200 >> several sections are missing from the navigation tree on the left, >> normally it looks like this: >> >> System >> |-Main System Chassis >> |-BIOS >> |-Fans >> |-Firmware >> |-Intrusion >> |-Memory >> |-Network >> |-Ports >> |-Power Supplies >> |-Processors >> |-Remote Access >> |-Slots >> |-Temperatures >> |-Voltages >> >> But when its broken: >> >> System >> |-Main System Chassis >> |-BIOS >> |-Memory >> |-Network >> |-Ports >> |-Processors >> |-Slots >> >> What would cause these to be missing? > > You're missing all the stuff traditionally provided by IPMI. > > -- > Matt Domsch > Technology Strategist > Dell | Office of the CTO > That's what I thought, but comparing the two r200 systems the kernel options and loaded modules are the same: ~ # zgrep IPMI /proc/config.gz CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER=m # CONFIG_IPMI_PANIC_EVENT is not set CONFIG_IPMI_DEVICE_INTERFACE=m CONFIG_IPMI_SI=m CONFIG_IPMI_WATCHDOG=m CONFIG_IPMI_POWEROFF=m ~ # lsmod| grep ipmi ipmi_watchdog 15907 0 ipmi_si 39187 2 ipmi_poweroff 7769 0 ipmi_devintf 7528 0 ipmi_msghandler 29939 4 ipmi_watchdog,ipmi_si,ipmi_poweroff,ipmi_devintf One thing I did notice was that the non-working server had BMC 1.79 so I updated it to 1.83, after upgrading I ran cat /sys/devices/platform/ipmi_bmc.0000.32/firmware_revision and it still returned 1.79 so I reloaded the ipmi drivers and it now returns 1.83, do I also need to reboot the server? Is there a minimum BMC supported by OMSA 6.3? If that is the cause of the problem I can check for it and let the user know what they need to do. Andy _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
