Thanks for the help. But now I have another question.
I run afacli and get the to cli prompt. I type in "controller battery_recondition" to recondition the battery and it says "command error: (adapter must be opened before this command is used.)"

I read through the controlled documentation, and I'm not sure what I'm missing here. How do I open the controller?



edit: solved! I think... I did a search on the forums and found the command "open afa0" then did the battery recondition and it said "executing: controller battery_recondition". I'll keep an eye on the system and see if the error message pops back up. Thanks again for all the help. :)

Message Edited by jdoiv on 09-06-200605:12 PM

First off, you're using an outdated version of the utility. With RHEL4u4 (same as CentOS 4.4) Use the one here as it is the latest version:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/scsi-raid/afa-apps-snmp.2807420-A04.tar.gz
then (AS ROOT):
$> tar -xzvf afa-apps-snmp.2807420-A04.tar.gz
$> rpm -ivh afaapps-4.1-0.i386.rpm

The documentation for the utility is here:
http://support.dell.com/docs/storage/57kgr/cli/en/index.htm

Thanks! I downloaded the newer file and extracted the two rpm packages.
When I went to rpm the afaapps-4.1-0.i386.rpm, I received the following error message
"error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is needed by afaapps-4.1.0.i386
Suggested resolutions:
/home/buildcentos/CENTOS/en/4.0/i386/CentOS/RPMS/compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386.rpm"

Not sure what this means or how to fix it.

The afasnmp rpm went fine I guess.

Thanks in advance.

Message Edited by jdoiv on 09-06-200604:20 PM

The second one worked. Thanks for all your help...



edit: sorry this post should be above the previous one. too many tabs open in the browser.... :(

Message Edited by jdoiv on 09-06-200604:59 PM

OK you're missing some compatability libraries. Hopefully this will do the trick. Again as root:
> yum -y install compat-libstdc++
OR if that doesn't work
> yum -y install compat-libstdc++-296
or as a last resort (because it may not catch other dependencies)
> rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386.rpm