On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Aaron van Meerten wrote:

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> I am having this exactly problem.  My solution has been to re-run =
> srvadmin-services.sh start again anytime these daemons stop running.  =
> They will then continue to run for some short period of time before =
> failing again.
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> I have only one node that refuses to ever respond to these commands, and =
> the daemons quit without any warning.
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> I called Dell support with regards to this topic, and was told basically =
> that since SL5.3 is NOT a support platform, that no one from Linux =

So what is a supported platform?

-Connie Sieh
> Services was going to talk to me about this topic.  He also told me that =
> I'd have to purchase a higher level of support, as the baseline support =
> contract only supports the hardware and doesn't promise anything about =
> the software at all.
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> So, let me know if you come up with anything resembling a solution to =
> this.  My work-around with srvadmin-services.sh is not elegant, and =
> isn't a sure-fire solution either.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Aaron van Meerten
> MWT2
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> On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
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>> Hello everyone.
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>> I'm running into a problem and I'm wondering if anyone has seen =
> anything very similar or if I'm breaking new ground with it.
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>> I have a system that I just got, it's a Dell PE R710 with the new H700 =
> RAID card. I installed it with SL5.3 (Our current version.) and when =
> loading the srvadmin tools (directly from the Dell site) I have been =
> finding that the daemons don't continue to run. Here's a small snippet =
> from my system log:
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>> Apr 23 12:33:50 xxxxxxxx Server Administrator: Instrumentation Service =
> EventID: 1001  Server Administrator startup complete
>> Apr 23 12:33:51 xxxxxxxx dataeng: dsm_sa_eventmgrd shutdown succeeded
>> Apr 23 12:33:58 xxxxxxxx dataeng: dsm_sa_datamgrd shutdown succeeded
>> Apr 23 12:33:59 xxxxxxxx instsvcdrv: dell_rbu device driver unloaded
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>> After the start process finishes (first line), the next three lines =
> show the daemons shutting down. It continues to try to respawn the =
> services only to have them continue to die.
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>> The start sequence is:
>> /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-service.sh start
>> [short pause........]
>> omreport storage vdisk
>> [a normal output from the omreport about vdisks.]
>> [another short pause.....]
>> omreport storage vdisk
>> [error, can't find any controllers]
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>> It is at this point, you can see the dataeng trying to restart the =
> dsm_sa daemons over and over again. (Clarification, they start then =
> stop.)
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>> I built a RHEL5.3 system and the tools don't seem to be having a =
> problem.
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>> Before I go digging into it much more I thought I'd ask if anyone else =
> has had any experience with this problem.
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>> Thanks for everyone's time and use of the forum.
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>>  <<  MCT>>    Michael C Tiernan.   xmpp:[log in to unmask]
>>  MIT - Laboratory for Nuclear Science - http://www.lns.mit.edu
>>  High Perf Research Computing Facility at The Bates Linear Accelerator
>>  "Bit-smashing your bits better than anyone can!"
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