Redunant Power Supply... NOT

[Nostradamus]

I have a Proliant ML530 machine together with a enclosure 4314. Operating system is SCO Openserver 5.0.5
I decided to buy extra power supplies to get redundancy with both the server and the disc cabinett.

this is my problem/s. When I pull one power cable to the cabinett it displays a message on screen that the cable is missing/one power supply is down. It then decides to shutdown the system due to thermal problems. It gives me one minute before shutdown. If I put the cable back before the minute´s up, I thought I would get the system back up, but I don´t. It goes down either way.

It works fine if I unplug one cable to the server. It keeps going but reminds me (on the screen) that I no longer have redundancy. When I plug the cable back in, it restores redundancy.

Am i missing something?

Nostradamus

 

[stuttle]

do you have SCO drivers for Compaq Wellness/ASR? If you don't, I think you will have to disable it in setup.

Steve ----------------------------
Steven R. Tuttle
CBE, MCSE, BNCS, DCT, A+
Senior Consultant, ePresence
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[Nostradamus]

Upon installation I made the F10-partion for diagnostics. I disabled all power saving features and shutdown command there. that didn´t help so I disabled the service from running on boot. That didn´t help either.
This is the patches I´ve installed...
EFS 5.36a
oss497c
oss471f
rs5.0.5a
oss600a

should I try removing the compaq wellness driver from the EFS patch? Would I loose some other functions then? I don´t want to loose any commands like cpqmon.


Nostradamus

 

[stuttle]

Yes, you would lose functionality. Does sco say they support the wellness driver? Some NOS' do not. It may be that your configuration requires more power than can be supplied by one power supply, or that the decrease in airflow as a result of taking out a power supply trips the thermal switch.

Steve ----------------------------
Steven R. Tuttle
CBE, MCSE, BNCS, DCT, A+
Senior Consultant, ePresence
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[Nostradamus]

what does the wellness driver really do?

Is there some way to know if the thermal switch has been tripped? The temperature isn´t that high. The server is in a cooled server-room. It shouldn´t shutdown at once due to thermal problems should it?
Nostradamus