Archive | omsa

31 August 2010 ~ Comments Off

Updating Dell OMSA on CentOS

Dell distributes its OMSA software in RPM packages and even has a yum repo available so you'd think that updating to the next version would be as simple as yum update, right? Wrong! You have to remove the old version first, and then install the new version. Oh, and you also need to stop the [...]

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11 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

Dell OMSA on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 – No Controllers found error

It seems that several people have been having problems getting Dell OMSA 6.2 to work correctly on CentOS 5.4 x86_64. Specifically, the software does not detect any storage controllers, and therefore also doesn't find any disks. eg. [root@b034 ~]# omreport storage pdisk controller=0 Invalid controller value. Read, controller=0 No controllers found. After a little investigation, [...]

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