What you are seeing is the OMSA inventory collector. This allows OMSA to report firmware and software versions through the web GUI or SNMP.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Giulio Orsero Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:01 AM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: OMSA: dataeng doing useless work at boot? PE1800, CentOS 5.3 OMSA 5.5.0-364 dell-omsa-repository-2-5 firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.5.el5 dell-community-repository-1-10.3.el5 dell_inventory_collector-6.1.0-1 dell-onlinediags-2.12.0-71 dell-dup-1.1.2-1.30.el5 dell-firmware-repository-1-4 I used yum install dell_inventory_collector yum install $(bootstrap_firmware) this put all the FW stuff into /usr/share/firmware/dell, then I run ==== work-around for firmware update bug fwdir=/usr/share/firmware/dell for payload_dir in `find $fwdir -type d -name payload`; do cp $payload_dir/* `dirname $payload_dir` done ==== then update_firmware --yes and it updated BIOS, PERC, BackPlane, BMC. All seems to be fine (system reports new BIOS, PERC FW, ...), but I see that at every boot the start of the dataeng service is now slower, it takes 1 or 2 minutes, and in the process table I see a lot of weird process names during this time, like LSIPIE.bin and similar (all stuff from /usr/share/firmware/dell). It's like dataeng is trying at every boot to update something. Should I delete the entire content of /usr/share/firmware/dell after a successful update to avoid this confusing and slow behavior? What are the rpm names of the FW data I can uninstall as opposed to the rpm names blonging to the infrastructure I want to keep? ie, these? $ rpm -qa | grep PowerEdge BMC_Firmware_componentid_05814_for_PowerEdge_2800-a10-21 system_bios_PowerEdge_2800-a07-20 Server_System_BIOS_componentid_00159_for_PowerEdge_2800-a07-21 Backplane_Firmware_componentid_03967_for_PowerEdge_2800-a01-21 Perc_4e_Di_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016e_for_PowerEd ge_2800- a19-21 $ Unfortunately the system is in a remote location, I'd like to uninstall the right rpms w/o causing trouble at the next boot. Thanks -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
