On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Rahul Nabar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Have you checked in the baseboard management log to see if it is >>throwing an error. > > Apparently the SC1435 does not have OpenManage. "Simple Computing" is > too simple to warrant that, I was told. They do have dset to look at > the ESM logs but not for CentOS nor Fedora. Redhat is their > "validated" [sic] OS. That's the only one they support. So I'm sort of > stuck there.
We have a cluster of SC1435 without the DRAC card but they still have the baseboard management. It should be accessible right at the end of the POST by hitting ctrl+e and normally it shows a little splash screen with the ip it has been configured with and what keys to press. It gives some great information especially if you are running into ram issues. I don't remember if we had to run on the logging or if it was on from the factory. > > I'll try ipmi. I was trying lm_sensors but apparantly it does not have > a driver for this chipset / motherboard combination. Not sure if its > an AMD Opteron specific driver issue or a > vendor-not-relesing-motherboard-specs issue (heard both versions on > the net). Anybody else had success using lm_sensors on the SC1435? We never tried to deal with lm_sensors on these machines because ipmi had more options. We are using CentOS 5 on our cluster machines. Here are a few links we used when working on ipmi. OpenIPMI http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2007/04/11/dell-ipmi/http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:IoPmIimMExQJ:www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2007/04/11/dell-ipmi/+linux+ipmi+temperature+sensor+read&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1 http://www.hollenback.net/index.php/LinuxServerManagementIpmi http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/ http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/ http://linux.dell.com/files/presentations/Red_Hat_Summit_May_2006/ipmi_presentation-redhat_summit.pdf http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html >We used to run Fedora. Now run CentOS. Same issues. They only support RedHat. >I have a hard time being 100% certain but the more I see it the more I am >convinced it is the hardware. The real key is to go back to the sales person that you purchased them from and tell them the problems you are having and have them help escalate the situation. I am not sure what diagnostics you are running but they have a bootable cd for doing a memory test at the link below. Even when they have tried to point at an OS problem if I can get an error on that cd they really have nothing that they can hide behind. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&deviceid=196&libid=13&releaseid=R169189&vercnt=5&formatcnt=0&SystemID=PWE_XEO_1435SC&servicetag=85PG2F1&os=LIN4&osl=en&catid=-1&impid=-1 Best of luck, Rob _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
