[CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

Thu May 28 14:10:57 UTC 2009
Drew <drew.kay at gmail.com>

Hi there,

I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/
ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The
hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so
we're okay there.

My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM
ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?

ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm
encountering two errors.

The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username & password
then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error.
I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4 & 1.6 and the same error both
times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created
according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I
find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.

The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest),
the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course
incorrect.

As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting
Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support & developerworks sites. The
support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP
50x errors.

-- 
Drew

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie