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How to override Minimum Required Firmware Version MP
The Dell MP is marking our physical servers as in a warining state due to the Firmware Version installed on the servers is not up to date with the MP's Minimum Required Firmware Version. This is trowing skewing our SLA as thse servers appear in a warning state in our reports.
We are not planning to upgrade the firmware anytime soon so, I need assistance on finding the monitor for this items and disable it.
We are using SCOM 2012 and Dell's MP 5.1
Any help will be appreciated.
Thomas_Jacob
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April 2nd, 2013 10:00
Which MP are you using - the agent-based Windows MP or the Out-Of-Band MP? Which component's firmware is the MP reporting as not up-to-date?
JUrbina
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April 2nd, 2013 15:00
The agent based MP. The alert is on Storage Controller Status(periodic) - PERC 5/i Integrated (Storage Controller)
DELL-Bhima R
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April 3rd, 2013 01:00
If the alert generated is "Dell OMSS Firmware version mismatch" then you have FW version lesser than minimum version.
If you don't want the alert to be shown you can disable the rule titled as "Dell OMSS Firmware version mismatch" but this doesn't prevent your server/ Storage Controller health from warning.
If you don't want health of Storage Controller that updates for its own, you can disable following UM's
On the Operation Manager Console----Go to the Authoring Pane---Go to the Monitors--- Go to the object named "Storage Controller"-----Select "Availability Health"--- You will get below UM's
1. Storage Contoller Status (Periodic)---Right click ----Click on Overrides---Disable the UM- For all the objects of Stotage Controller
2. Storage Controller Status (Event Triggered) ---same as above UM
Anyway up on disabling above UM's you will not able to see the health updates of Storage Controller any more
DELL-Bhima R
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April 3rd, 2013 05:00
If you disable the UM's then it will disable the entire storage controller availabilty monitoring
DELL-Bhima R
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April 3rd, 2013 05:00
Actually FW mismatch is added to the implementation of health computation internally which cannot be overridden externally.
Recommendation is upgrade to the min OMSA version
OR
If you see the alert saying "Dell OMSS Firmware version mismatch" then you can think it is caused only because of FW mismatch and proceed with it instead of disabling UM's that stops health monitoring of Storage Controller.
JUrbina
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April 3rd, 2013 05:00
Will this only affect the firmware mismatch? or will it disable the entire Storage Controller availability monitoring?
JUrbina
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April 3rd, 2013 06:00
OK, thank you so much for the information provided.
DELL-Bhima R
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April 3rd, 2013 06:00
It checks for VB SCRIPT engine version not for Storage Controller FW version.
We can't omit this code as checks for minimum vb script version required to run the UM script.
We cannot override the FW version.
JUrbina
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April 3rd, 2013 06:00
By looking at the monitor, it seems to be based on the DellStoragePeriodicTrigger.vbs. Within the script i believe there is a portion that discovers the engine version
'**********************************************************
' CheckVBScriptEngine()
' Check VBScript engine version:
'**********************************************************
Function CheckVBScriptEngine()
On Error Resume Next
Dim bIsCompatV, var
Const VBSCRIPT_MIN_VERSION = 56
var = ((ScriptEngineMajorVersion * 10) + ScriptEngineMinorVersion)
If ((var) < VBSCRIPT_MIN_VERSION) Then
bIsCompatV = False
Else
bIsCompatV = True
End If
If Err <> 0 Then
CheckVBScriptEngine = Err.Number
Err.Clear
Else
CheckVBScriptEngine = bIsCompatV
End If
End Function
Is it possible to create an override ommiting the script from collecting the firmware information?
DELL-Bhima R
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April 3rd, 2013 07:00
Welcome JUrbina. In fact we considered your query of having a override for the Minimum FW version. I will definitely come back to you once i find update on it.
JUrbina
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October 11th, 2013 06:00
I see that there is a new version of this MP. Do you know if in this new MP provides the ability to override the check for FW version?
Thanks in advance.