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I can't get the ServeRAID Manager to work

Hello,

I have installed the RaidMan-9.00.i386.rpm using the instructions here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=597256

Basically what I have done is converted to .deb with alien, and removed the following lines from Raidman_9.00-1_i386/DEBIAN/postinst and postrm
chkconfig --add raid_agent
chkconfig --del raid_agent

In the RaidEvtA.log I can see that it recognizes the controller (see code).
However, arcconf and hrconf don't recognize any controller.

Since I don't have X on this server, I have also tried installing the .deb onto a different machine and forwarded ports 34570 to 34580 using ssh to a third machine. I ran RaidMan.sh on the second machine and tried connect remotely to the third machine. I got "Could not connect to Remote Computer"

How can I make it work?

Thanks!

(the real information was replaced by myuser, myserver and host.domain)
myuser@myserver:/usr/RaidMan$ cat RaidEvtA.log
May 11, 2008 9:17:14 AM GMT+02:00       WRN      406:A01C1S00L--        host.domain       Possible non-warranted physical drive found: controller 1, channel 1, SCSI ID 0.
May 11, 2008 9:17:14 AM GMT+02:00       WRN      406:A01C1S01L--        host.domain       Possible non-warranted physical drive found: controller 1, channel 1, SCSI ID 1.
May 11, 2008 9:17:14 AM GMT+02:00       WRN      406:A01C1S02L--        host.domain       Possible non-warranted physical drive found: controller 1, channel 1, SCSI ID 2.
May 11, 2008 9:17:14 AM GMT+02:00       WRN      406:A01C1S03L--        host.domain       Possible non-warranted physical drive found: controller 1, channel 1, SCSI ID 3.
May 11, 2008 9:17:14 AM GMT+02:00       WRN      406:A01C1S04L--        host.domain       Possible non-warranted physical drive found: controller 1, channel 1, SCSI ID 4.
May 11, 2008 9:17:14 AM GMT+02:00       WRN      406:A01C1S05L--        host.domain       Possible non-warranted physical drive found: controller 1, channel 1, SCSI ID 5.
May 11, 2008 9:17:14 AM GMT+02:00       ERR      401:A01C1S03L--        host.domain       Defunct drive - SCSI error: controller 1, channel 1, SCSI ID 3 (FRU Part # ).
 
 
 
myserver:/usr/RaidMan# ./arcconf getversion
Controllers found: 0
 
Command completed successfully.
myserver:/usr/RaidMan# ./hrconf getversion
Controllers found: 0
 
Command completed successfully.

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dave_stav

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Thank you for your help!

I don't have a tape drive connected to this machine.

Windows Event Viewer?
I am using Debian GNU/Linux

In /var/log/messages though, the 3 attached lines are added every few seconds only while the RaidAgent is running.

Do I need the RaidAgent to be running in order to use hrconf / arcconf ?
I tried both ways and I get the same result.

May 12 17:26:22 tinkie kernel: printk: 19 messages suppressed.
May 12 17:26:22 tinkie kernel: sg_write: data in/out 4204/4204 bytes for SCSI command 0xd--guessing data in;
May 12 17:26:22 tinkie kernel:    program java not setting count and/or reply_len properly

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dave_stav

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Hi Gns,

Thank you for your response, and yes - of course i started the agent :)

Well, using the X interface is not what I wanted to do -- after posting my question I did manage to run the GUI RaidMan (by installing some of the X packages and connecting via ssh) -- I wanted a command line utility.

I resolved the command line issue by using an older CD -- IBM ServeRaid 7.10b Support CD and using ipssend i managed to access my controller.

Thank you anyway for your help.

dave_stav

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Thank you all for your help

RedITAus

Hi Dave,
I am having the same issue, when you boot from the cd, how did you set it up to allow to use the new drive?