Hi everyone,

My server is Dell PowerEdge 1800, dual XEON 3.00GHz, 2GB memory and the Dell/Adapter RAID SATA 6 channels card with 6 SATA 150 HDs.

Since the server have just been purchased and I am new to the RAID configuration and monitoring, I am trying to test for RAID 1. The configuration of RAID 1 is OK. RAID 5 is my target approach.

The DRAC Card was not purchased.

The target server OS is Redhat Linux Enterprise AS 4. However, the supported OS verion for Redhat Linux Enterprise is only up to 3, with reference to the enclosed setup CD's documentation.

Now, I have two problems:

1. How to monitor the server health status and perform administrative tasks remotely without installing DRAC Card? As far as I know, the Server Administrator can do the task. However, I could not access the server with using a browser on port 1311. The OS is the Redhat Linux Enterprise 3. It had response and asked me to download an unknown file. The file name was different for each time when I tried to access. I guess the server port 1311 was being used by the Server Administrator.

2. When I install Redhat Linux Enterprise AS 4, the ethernet card could not be recongized. Even I downloaded and installed the driver that was downloaded from Dell's support site with no dependency, the ethernet card was displayed in the Hardware Browser, but could not be configured.

I would be appreciate if you or anyone give me a helpful suggestion. Thanks a lot!

Bruce

1. Server Administrator is the way to go. From your description it sounds like you are using mozilla/firefox and http://fqdn-or-ip:1311. The file i believe is the SSL cert. Try connecting to https://fqdn-or-ip:1311 and that should clear up the problem.

https://localhost:1311


2. if using rhel4 and the driver from support.dell.com [Intel_LAN_8.2_RHEL4_e1000_DKMS_A00.tar.gz], the kernel source and dkms should be used. If kernel source is not available it will not build correctly. The latest dkms rpm can be downloaded from linux.dell.com/files/dkms. i have seen instances where the NIC(s) not detected correctly even though lspci shows them. If the module is correct and you still have problems i would recommend to disble the NICs in the BIOS, reboot and let kudzu remove the config, then enable them in the BIOS and when detected by kudzu configure them and that should take care of that.

another note: rhel4, both ia32 and em64t are supported by Dell (to what depth will depend on the warranty/contracts purchased for the system)
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topi...n&s=biz&~tab=3

hope this helps