Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Delay start of OMSA on RHEL 8.x

2022-12-23 Thread Ben Argyle
Try putting After=snmpd.service # or whatever the name of the SNMP unit file is in the OMSA unit files that are failing. Ben -Original Message- From: Linux-PowerEdge On Behalf Of Matthew Geier Sent: 23 December 2022 06:27 To: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Latest dsu mirror not working

2022-10-11 Thread Ben Argyle
iI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7Csdata=W3xZx2VnBk1RKxes5GEXpaG%2FCZLky%2FhBNNXzIDSTCiY%3Dreserved=0 > > So why not omsa? > Dropping support for Omsa without an announcement seems very bad form. > (I've searched and can't find it, can anyone?) > > D > __

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] IPv6 for linux.dell.com

2022-01-20 Thread Ben Argyle
They'd need to get it working reliably with IPv4 first. I'd recommend opening a proper, actual, support call with Dell. This mailing list seems to tend towards being considered unofficial, as far as I can tell. Ben -Original Message- From: Linux-PowerEdge On Behalf Of Anand Buddhdev

[Linux-PowerEdge] https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu still dead to the world

2022-01-17 Thread Ben Argyle
Dear Dell, Please can you go into whatever dusty cupboard the PowerEdge 1400SC you have hosting linux.dell.com is languishing in and give it a kick? With thanks, Ben ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] linux.dell.com very slow to respond

2022-01-14 Thread Ben Argyle
I'm getting timeouts to the repos, too. Ben -Original Message- From: Linux-PowerEdge On Behalf Of Robert Emery Sent: 14 January 2022 10:40 To: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] linux.dell.com very slow to respond Hello, It seems like today linux.dell.com is

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] T630 iDRAC 2.80.80.0

2021-05-17 Thread Ben Argyle
My 4.40.00.00 are being upgraded to 4.40.10.00... Ben -Original Message- From: Linux-PowerEdge On Behalf Of Onno Zweers Sent: 17 May 2021 10:14 To: Stefan M. Radman ; linux-poweredge Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] T630 iDRAC 2.80.80.0 Hi Stefan, I've not ran into this, but I have a

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] linux.dell.com down, again

2021-01-15 Thread Ben Argyle
Note, this also affects runs of 'dsu'. Ben -Original Message- From: Ben Argyle Sent: 15 January 2021 10:33 To: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com Subject: linux.dell.com down, again Can someone at Dell give linux.dell.com a kick, please? I can't get anything from the yum repos. Ben

[Linux-PowerEdge] linux.dell.com down, again

2021-01-15 Thread Ben Argyle
Can someone at Dell give linux.dell.com a kick, please? I can't get anything from the yum repos. Ben ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC update failure

2020-11-04 Thread Ben Argyle
x-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC update failure [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Didn't you already notice that 3 months ago? I seem to recall I added it to the ansible role because of you :) https://github.com/CSCfi/ansible-role-dell-firmware-upgrade/pull/31 Greetings Klaas On 1

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC update failure

2020-11-04 Thread Ben Argyle
ceeded. PLEASE, Dell, stick to one set of vendor/product strings! I'd appreciate having a reply that says more than "glad it's working" to explain Engineering's thinking behind changing the vendor/product string, again. Ben -Original Message- From: Gore, Santosh Sent: 04 No

[Linux-PowerEdge] Corrupt BIOS firmware staging

2020-10-15 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] On every single PowerEdge R640 I have, whenever I run 'dsu' (running RHEL7) and there are other firmwares to update along with a BIOS firmware update, on reboot the POST tells me that the BIOS image that I staged is corrupt and I need to press F1 to retry boot. This always

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Dell DSU for Linux (RHEL8/CentOS8) now requires EPEL

2020-07-02 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] That's a good catch. Hopefully Dell will act soon... However, wasn't there some discussion of OMSA/dsu moving away from libssh2? Did anything come of that? I can't think all customers of Dell would be happy to enable EPEL on their servers to get official Dell support

[Linux-PowerEdge] FW: Dell dsm_sa_datamgrd oddity

2020-06-18 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Good morning all, I have just about finished patching up to date (RHEL 7.8) 18 physical Dell servers of various modern types. All of them are fine, with one curious exception. The dsm_sa_datamgrd service used by omreport and friends consistently fails to start at boot

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller 4.10.10.10 won't install

2020-06-01 Thread Ben Argyle
://github.com/CSCfi/ansible-role-dell-firmware-upgrade/blob/master/tasks/multipathd.yml References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380272 Greetings Klaas On 29.05.20 17:06, Ben Argyle wrote: > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > I've got some R640s with firmware 4.00.00.00 for the iDR

[Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller 4.10.10.10 won't install

2020-05-29 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] I've got some R640s with firmware 4.00.00.00 for the iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller. The 'dsu' output tells me 4.10.10.10 is available. It's downloaded and install is attempted. At which point this happens: Fetching

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] [Security Alert] Latest Dell's

2020-03-15 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] I'd suggest linking to a system-managed JRE symlink of that version of Java, rather than a specific version(ed) directory which will be removed the next time you get an update for that RPM. Ben -- Servers and Storage Team, UIS, University of Cambridge

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] dcism RPM pollutes /etc/bashrc

2020-03-11 Thread Ben Argyle
Wow, Dell, really? That's shocking. Please fix this at your earliest convenience. That file even has this at the top: # System wide functions and aliases # Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile # It's NOT a good idea to change this file unless you know what you # are doing. It's much better

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Removal of RHEL6 OMSA repo

2020-01-29 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] It appears that http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/DSU_20.01.00/os_dependent/ is the last version with RHEL6 support. Ben -Original Message- From: Mauricio Tavares Sent: 29 January 2020 15:00 To: Ben Argyle Cc: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Re: [Linux

[Linux-PowerEdge] Removal of RHEL6 OMSA repo

2020-01-29 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] So, http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/ now no longer has a RHEL6 directory. Dell: Please can you tell me why you've already removed RHEL6 support for OMSA? Ben ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list

[Linux-PowerEdge] dsu problems with QLE adapter and OS Collector

2020-01-23 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Can someone tell me what's going on with this PowerEdge R640, please: |DELL EMC System Update---| [ ] represents 'not selected' [*] represents 'selected' [-] represents 'Component already at repository version (can be selected only if -e option is used)'

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] DSU Problems with 19.12.02 and 20.01.00 release

2020-01-16 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Hi Klaas, That's a good spot on the new addition to the blacklist. Thank you very much for that! A similar, but not identical QLogic-identification thing cropped up a while ago for us (I forget exactly when, but I think it was less than 12 months ago) and Dell issued a

[Linux-PowerEdge] Repo change?

2019-12-13 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] I haven't updated DSU/OMSA in a little while, but when I did "yum update" today I saw this: https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/emptyrepo/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found My /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-system-update.repo contains:

[Linux-PowerEdge] RHEL7 or FC card / SFP / cable issues?

2019-11-06 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] We have a RHEL7 OS (fully patched as of 2019-11-01, kernel 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64) running on a Dell PowerEdge R640 server with a pair of "QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (rev 02)" cards to provide FC connectivity to our Dell/Compellent

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Unable to update firmware on Qlogic cards

2019-10-16 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Thank you. I did wonder, as I couldn't find 15.00.14 on the web site either! Ben From: R S Sent: 15 October 2019 18:59 To: Ben Argyle Cc: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Unable to update firmware on Qlogic cards Looks like a DSU bug while

[Linux-PowerEdge] Unable to update firmware on Qlogic cards

2019-10-15 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Wotcha, Can anyone tell me why this might be happening? I have four PowerEdge R640s running RHEL7 both doing the same thing: # dsu DELL EMC System Update 1.7.0 Copyright (C) 2014 DELL EMC Proprietary. Verifying catalog installation ... Installing catalog from repository

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Missing PGP files for dsu 1.7.0

2019-05-20 Thread Ben Argyle
that upgrading from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 should just require running yum update? Why doesn't the package include those keys? Ben -Original Message- From: Linux-PowerEdge On Behalf Of Ben Argyle Sent: 20 May 2019 11:10 To: 'linux-poweredge@dell.com' Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] Missing PGP files

[Linux-PowerEdge] Missing PGP files for dsu 1.7.0

2019-05-20 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] >From another thread, which I'm putting here instead (apologies for hijacking >the other one)... # dsu DELL EMC System Update 1.7.0 Copyright (C) 2014 DELL EMC Proprietary. Do you want to import public key(s) on the system (Y/N)? : y Unable to read public file

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] 3 x R710 Fails to do any DSU updates due to a partial inventory failure

2019-05-20 Thread Ben Argyle
# dsu DELL EMC System Update 1.7.0 Copyright (C) 2014 DELL EMC Proprietary. Do you want to import public key(s) on the system (Y/N)? : y Unable to read public file /usr/libexec/dell_dup/0x756ba70b1019ced6.asc Exiting DSU! # ls /usr/libexec/dell_dup/0x756ba70b1019ced6.asc ls: cannot access

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Are Dell's days in Linux real numbered?

2018-10-31 Thread Ben Argyle
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Please report any suspicious attachments, links, or requests for sensitive information. > ... now when IBM acquired Redhat. What do you guys think? (thinking of my > purchases in near future) Why would they be? It might lessen the RedHat/Dell interplay somewhat, but it's

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] dsu "warning: inventory collector returned with partial failure"

2018-03-22 Thread Ben Argyle
t: 22 March 2018 07:12 > To: linux-poweredge@dell.com > Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] dsu "warning: inventory collector returned > with partial failure" > > I've seen this in rhv environments due to multipathd: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380272 > &g

[Linux-PowerEdge] dsu "warning: inventory collector returned with partial failure"

2018-03-21 Thread Ben Argyle
I've got a Dell PowerEdge R640 running RHEL7, and dsu 1.5.2 with OMSA 9.1.0. Currently it's running BIOS 1.3.7 and iDRAC 3.15.17.15. Whenever I run dsu it takes forever at the point of "Getting System Inventory" and then returns a warning about partial failure of the inventory collector: #

[Linux-PowerEdge] omconfig command disabled?

2018-03-21 Thread Ben Argyle
I'm trying to trigger the learn cycle on a PERC H740P Mini and getting the following: # omconfig storage battery action=startlearn controller=0 battery=0 Operation disabled. Read, action=startlearn Refer to the documentation for more information. Any clue as to why? It's happening on at least

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] dsu woes

2018-03-12 Thread Ben Argyle
One wonders about the lack of joined-uppedness at Dell in this area. Someone would gain serious kudos (and probably a pay rise) for creating a one-click "update web site and DSU (and whatever else)" publication system. This "well it's there, but it's not here, and there's an older version

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] Dell Repository Manager

2017-06-13 Thread Ben Argyle
re update page (did this to an R210II yesterday)). > > john > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Ben Argyle wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:37:57 + > > From: Ben Argyle <ben.arg...@uis.cam.ac.uk> > > To: "'linux-poweredge@dell.com'" <linux-poweredge@dell

[Linux-PowerEdge] Dell Repository Manager

2017-06-13 Thread Ben Argyle
Setting aside the fact that there's no Dell Repository Manager for linux, I'm running version 2.2.1 on a Windows box so I can follow the instructions on https://www.vmadmin.co.uk/other/332-dellbiosfirmwareupdaterepomanager so as to be able to update the firmware on a pair of R720xd servers.

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] omreport suddenly not giving information

2017-02-15 Thread Ben Argyle
age- > From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge- > boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Ben Argyle > Sent: 15 February 2017 16:38 > To: linux-poweredge@dell.com > Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] omreport suddenly not giving information > > I've got a 720xd (revision I) runn

[Linux-PowerEdge] omreport suddenly not giving information

2017-02-15 Thread Ben Argyle
I've got a 720xd (revision I) running RHEL6 and OMSA 8.4.0 with the following firmware: BIOS2.5.4 iDRAC 2.32.31.30 About half an hour ago it started not giving any output for "omreport chassis". I restarted OMSA with "/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadm-service.sh restart" but still got no