Dell Diagnostics for Linux?

[Craig White]

Hi -

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:27 -0700, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
> Usually that light comes on if the case has been opened or one power supply
> is not plugged in if you have dual power supplies.
> 
> Gilbert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Randy
> Melder
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 9:13 AM
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Dell Diagnostics for Linux?
> 
> Group,
> 
> I've just bought a pair of servers (Poweredge 1750, Dual cpu, Perc)
> off ebay. Configured RAID1+hs on the Perc controllers. Then loaded
> CentOS on both. No problems. I've checked it over and can't seem to
> locate any problems that would make the 'System Status Indicator'
> blink amber... but they do... on both.
> 
> Is there a tool for linux that will tell me what's going on? On Dell's
> site it looks like the diagnostics are all Dos/Windows based.
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probably depends upon which RAID card you have (i.e. 4/Di, 3/Di, 3/Si)
because it could either be an adaptec or lsi card... (lspci -v # should
tell you what is in there)

Start here...as root...
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap.sh | bash
wget -q -O - http://repo.fwupdate.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.sh | bash
yum install srvadmin-all
yum install firmware-addon-dell
/usr/bin/srvadmin-services.sh start

Once this is running, you can connect using a web browser pointed to
https://fqdn_or_ip_address:1311
(note port 1311 is for OMSA - Open Manage Server Assistant which is what
you are installing above in the first line, the second line is to
install firmware update software)

If you have an adaptec card...you will want to install afaapps package
yum install afaapps

Then to reset the the amber lights, something like this should do it...
# omconfig system esmlog action=clear
or
# omconfig system alertlog action=clear

You might find this valuable...
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge

Craig