[CentOS] DELL openmanage question

Thu Mar 9 20:08:43 UTC 2006
Robin Mordasiewicz <robin at mordasiewicz.com>

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, David Mansfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:07 -0500, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>
>> This is excellent. Maybe you could add in a blurb about percsnmpd and how
>> to configure the megaraid driver
>
> I don't think percsnmpd is required anymore.  The snmp subagent is
> included in the OMSA packages, and seems to be called:
>
> /opt/dell/srvadmin/dataeng/bin/dcsnmp32d
>
> As for the megaraid driver.  I didn't configure anything at all.  It's
> out of the box centos 4.2, which is (from dmesg):
>
> megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
> megaraid: 2.20.4.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005)
>
> I DID have to update the firmware on my Perc 4/DC and Perc 4e/Si cards,
> the flash programs available on Dell's sites worked perfectly.  I ended
> up using:
>
> RAID_FRMW_LX_R116937.BIN --> Perc 4/DC
> RAID_FRMW_LX_R116943.BIN --> Perc 4e/Si
>
> Download, run, reboot.

ok this is starting to make sense.
How can I find out which firmware I should be using for the PERC
also I cannot run dellmgr, it says "no adapters found"

Mebbe I will ask on the DELL linux mailing list.