Start all the services: “srvadmin-services.sh start”Memory capacity is significantly less than the R320 which has six DIMM slots and supports up to 192GB of DDR3. Go to /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/srvadmin-storage/ directoryĤ. Edit the file the same as the instructions state for step 3 for the windows version above.Ħ. Stop all the services “srvadmin-services.sh stop”Ģ. Linux (CentOS 7 – Instructions may differ on different linux distributions):ġ. If you have had success with this method please let me your know your server model, raid controller model and OMSA version in the comments below. Once you have modified the INI file you need to restart the DSM SA Data Manager service in services.msc and Dell OMSA should now report this if you refresh the page. nonDellCertified flag for blocking all non-dell certified alerts.Ĥ. Amount, in seconds, to sleep between each attempt to poll the PV20x, PV21x, and PV22x enclosure(s). It is very important it is added after the lines or the setting won’t be honored. This is normally when you upgrade from an older version to 8.5.0. If you do not find this line in the file you will need to add it in the following place and save the file. nonDellCertified flag for blocking all non-dell certified alerts. There should be the following nonDellCertified flag for blocking all non-dell certified alerts.Ĭhange this to the following and save the file. Open the stsvc.ini file located in either the C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\sm or the C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\smfolder depending on if you have installed the 32-bit/64-bit version.ģ. Upgrade Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to 8.5.0 or above, if already installed go to the next step.Ģ. So you have installed a disk that is non-certified and you check Dell OpenManage Server Administrator you will see that Storage is reporting a warning and a physical disk reporting that it is not Certified as shown in the images below.ġ. They will find out if you are using non-certified drives anyway. Note: If you are applying this to servers that are in warranty and you are using non-ceritfied, I’ll leave the risk for you to decide. So what do you do to remedy this you ask? Yes we know it would be unsupported by Dell, but if it’s out of warranty it didn’t matter. The customer wouldn’t buy a new server because it would work with new drive and there was no budget to replace it. This was frustrating for us because we had customers we support with servers that was out of warranty and we couldn’t source Dell certified drives anymore but could get hold of the OEM equivalent. It would also cause issues with monitoring the drive through SNMP because querying the OID would bring back this warning value and thus we were unable to accurately determine drive pre-failures. Numerous unhappy posts on the Dell Community forum cover this over the years :. It would seem that since 8.5.0 Dell has finally listened to our prayers and there is now a hidden and undocumented setting to remove this soft block. Dell have for a long time to my knowledge put a soft block on installation of 3rd party drives into dell servers which will cause a warning in Dell OpenManage to report it is not certified.
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