[SOLVED] Adaptec Storage Manager Agent - version 7.31

[greavette]

Hello,

I've just upgraded my Proxmox Server to 3.1 We have an Adapatec Raid Card in our Server and I'd like to monitor it using the Adaptec Manager from Windows GUI Client.

I know I need to install the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent. This post:

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/15...Manager-(ASM)-on-Proxmox-VE?p=68171#post68171

says I can use adaptec-storage-manager-agent 7.31.18856-1.

I have no idea the steps I need to install this agent on my proxmox server.

Can someone point me to the steps I would need to follow.

Thank you.

 

[tom]

which Adaptec card do you have?

 

[greavette]

Hello Tom,

We have an Adaptec RAID 51645.

Thank you.

 

[tom]

see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Adaptec_Storage_Manager

if you are not familiar with alien (to convert rpm to deb), see an old version of this page: http://pve.proxmox.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Adaptec_Storage_Manager&oldid=1004

 

[tom]

or use http://hwraid.le-vert.net/wiki/DebianPackages

Update: Note, looks like there is an unresolved issue with dependencies here, see http://hwraid.le-vert.net/ticket/236

 

[greavette]

Hello Tom,

Okay, so to sum up what I need to do, I take the rpm file and use Alien to convert it to a deb file. I then use the Proxmox Wiki for Storman to install it to my server.

But there is an unresolved dependency as per the link you gave. Do you know where in /var/lib/dpkg/status I remove this dependency. I'm not sure what I'm looking for?

Here is what I see in my file:

Package: storman
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: alien
Installed-Size: 72216
Maintainer: root <root@s22>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7.31-18857
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.6-15), libx11-6, libxext6
Description: Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager
.
(Converted from a rpm package by alien version 8.81.)


Thanks.

 

[tom]

the dependency problem is on the package from hwraid repo only. ignore it if you go the alien way.

 

[greavette]

Thanks Tom,

But how do I check to make sure what I've installed is working?

I've installed the Windows Client on a Windows 2008 VM and I've tried to connect to our Proxmox Host where I've installed the agent and it cannot connect? The only message I get is "Unable to connect to the remote system."

This is what I see when I search for StorMan service. Not sure I'm looking for the correct service.

root@swasserver5:~# ps -ef | grep StorMan
root 5913 5859 0 09:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep StorMan

Thank you.

 

[greavette]

Hello,

Here are the steps I took to install the storage manager version 7.31:


wget http://download.adaptec.com/raid/storage_manager/asm_linux_x64_v7_31_18856.tgz
tar zxf asm_linux_x64_v7_31_18856.tgz
cd manager
apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential libstdc++5
alien StorMan-7.31.x86_64.rpm
dpkg -i storman_7.31-18857_amd64.deb
cd /usr/StorMan
chmod +x arcconf
./arcconf GETCONFIG 1


I then updated the stor_agent:
nano /etc/init.d/stor_agent
And I found the lines beginning with #Default and I changed them as per the wiki (although I'm not sure if I leave the # sign or remove it...I left the # sign there for my change):
# Default-Start: 2 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6


This is the result of when I saved stor_agent:


root@server5:/etc/init.d# update-rc.d stor_agent defaults
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (3 5) of script `stor_agent' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 6) of script `stor_agent' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
insserv: script bkupstor_agent: service stor_agent already provided!


I then started the service:
/etc/init.d/stor_agent start

I check the status of what I've installed:

root@server5:/etc/init.d# ps -ef | grep StorMan
root 28659 27067 0 15:20 pts/0 00:00:00 grep StorMan

So....does this mean I've successfully installed Storage Manager for Adaptec on my Proxmox Host?

Because when I try to connect to my server from a Windows VM with Adaptec software I get the very helpful message:

Unable to connect to remote system.

From the steps I outlined, did I do something wrong?

Thanks.

 

[tom]

Martin just updated the wiki, make sure you followed all steps, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Adaptec_Storage_Manager

He tested it on a 3.1 host with Adaptec 6805.

 

[greavette]

I've got it working now. The only thing I noticed differently from the steps I did to what Martin put on the wiki was how I was starting the service. Once I did: service stor_agent start
I was then allowed to connect to our service from our windows client.

Thanks for your assistance with this Tom (and Martin).

Is there a way to mark a post as solved?

 

[tom]

..

Is there a way to mark a post as solved?

yes, the original poster (and moderators) can mark it as solved, I just did this.

 

[DJSnoopy]

If there is still a problem with the connection, the daemon reacts per default only on IPv6!

You can edit it in:

/usr/StorMan/StorAgnt.sh

Just expand the following line nearby the end of the file

Original version:

$JAVA_BIN/java -Djava.compiler=NONE -cp $INSTDIR/RaidMan.jar com.ibm.sysmgt.raidmgr.agent.ManagementAgent $*

Extended version:

$JAVA_BIN/java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.compiler=NONE -cp $INSTDIR/RaidMan.jar com.ibm.sysmgt.raidmgr.agent.ManagementAgent $*

Edit:
Translated to english