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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/10 Rahul Nabar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpnabar@gmail.com">rpnabar@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><br> </div>Thanks John. I will do that. A question: how likely is it that this is<br>a software issue and not hardware from my symptoms? They keep harping<br>on the fact that I am running a non-validated OS.</blockquote>
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<div>I have had that line from a few companies.</div>
<div>Looks like you are talking to first or second line support people - this is what they have been trained to say.</div>
<div>You can understand this - it stops idiots calling in to them who are trying to run some spit-and-sawdust distribution they got free with a packet of breakfast serial.</div>
<div>Again, just use your salesman or account manager and say that you spent $$$ with Dell to run applications,</div>
<div>and that the systems were sold to you as being able to run Linux.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I have the latest. But that's only based on the version #. I will dig<br>deeper. Could this be bad BIOS, though, from the symptoms? So, some<br>
code somewhere switches the state of that LED from blue to orange and<br>if only I knew what the trigger was supposed to be. Someone had to<br>write that!</blockquote>
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<div>The light coming on indicates a fault.</div>
<div>You should be interrogating the onboard management controller (called an IPMI card ort a BMC, or in Dell speak I think a DRAC).</div>
<div>Log onto the suspect nodes anr run ipmitool:</div>
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<div>ipmitool -I open sel elist</div>
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<div>Do you not get a fault code on the little screen beside the light?</div>
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