From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 12:42:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F5B16A41F for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:42:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) Received: from warprecords.com (dsl-212-135-210-82.dsl.easynet.co.uk [212.135.210.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE91E43D45 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:42:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) Received: from [194.106.52.52] (HELO [192.168.0.2]) by warprecords.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 4610668 for freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:42:34 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <2166CC4C-7AE6-4045-863C-38182E63AF73@wholemeal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org From: Greg Eden Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:42:29 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Subject: hpasmcli locks up a DL380G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:42:41 -0000 Hello First of all many thanks for the port of these tools to FreeBSD, something I'd dreamt about for a long time. The lack of RAID management tools for FreeBSD on DLxxx hardware was quite crippling. OK, they have been removed but at least I know they are actively being worked on. Sadly though I've been experiencing problems with the hpasmcli utility on a number of machines, which today culminated in the locking up of a production webserver. I was taking what seem to be a small risk running it in that environment but initial tests had shown it to be quite stable. The box that locked up was a DL380G3 which reports as below, running FreebSD 5.3R-p5 System : ProLiant DL380 G3 Serial No. : xxxxxxxxxxxx ROM version : P29 05/01/2004 iLo present : Yes Embedded NICs : 2 NIC1 MAC: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx NIC2 MAC: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Processor: 0 Name : Intel Xeon Stepping : 9 Speed : 2800 MHz Bus : 400 MHz Socket : 1 Level2 Cache : 512 KBytes Status : Ok Processor total : 1 Memory installed : 1024 MBytes ECC supported : Yes What appears to happen is thus: 1. For a period of days or weeks the hpasmcli and hpasmd work just fine. 2. After some period of time, in the order of weeks, when hpasmcli is run it will just print: HP management CLI for FreeBSD (v7.22) Copyright 2003,2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Group, L.P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- NOTE: Some hpasmcli commands may not be supported on all Proliant servers. Type 'help' to get a list of all top level commands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- and then hang, without showing the hpasmcli> prompt for input. In the past it's been possible to Ctrl-C break out. Restarting the hpasmd daemon will see hpasmcli working fine again. Given the usefulness of the utility I've been willing to live with that. However today running hpasmcli seems to have instantly locked the box, both at the console and via ssh. I've been using hpasmcli since it's public release. The other HP boxes I have include two DL360G4s with FreeBSD 5.4-p1 and a DL360G3 with FreeBSD 5.3-p4 . They have shown the hpasmcli hanging behaviour, but never locked up hard. Unfortunately all the HP boxes I have are currently in production and I can't run any further diagnostics, traces etc. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Is a fix likely? best wishes greg.