David Thank you for the update and all of the information. Our engineering has verified this issue. OMSA 7.4 will not properly report status changes on the H200 and SAS 6/ir. This affects programs like OpenManage Essentials and OpenManage Integration for VMware Vcenter that use OMSA to monitor servers. A fix is planned with OMSA 7.4.0.2 Thanks
Hi,I have been rebuilding a clients Dell T310 with 4 x new 450GB SAS in Raid 10, using its H200 raid card and have installed Windows HyperV 2012R2. All firmware, drivers and software have been installed and updated and I was starting to test my OMSA DellAlert.ps1 script to do email notification. I decided to pull one of the 4 disks out to test the notification, but OMSA didn't detect any disk removal! Very worrying! I left it unplugged for 9 hours and still OMSA was showing 4 disks online. Even refreshing the OMSA browser, or closing and reopening the browser didn't change anything. Only when I reboot the server did it then show a disk had been removed and my email script notified me of this. I pushed the disk back in and again 3 hours later OMSA still hasn't shown that anything has changed. Disks 3 and 4 activity look like they are rebuilding but if OMSA isn't showing any changes how am I meant to get alerts to show when a disk has failed and raid has degraded. I cannot put this server back into my client until this issue is resolved. Has anyone seen or had this issue before? Any help would be greatful. I suppose my next step will be to downgrade OMSA and firmware etc or test rebuilding with Server 2012 HyperV. Update 1 - If I stop and restart the Server Administrator service and DSM SA Data Manager then the notification comes through and loggin into the OMSA shows the disk missing.The LCD screen on the server changes to orange as soon as the disk is pulled so the underlying hardware seems to be working ok, it just seems to be the OMSA 7.4.0 software in 2012R2 HyperV. Update 2 - I upgraded OMSA to 7.4.0.1 and nothing has changed. I have noticed that the OMSA Embedded System Management (ESM) Logs DO show that a disk has been removed or inserted but the Alerts section and all other areas of OMSA do not show any changes until the services are restarted or server rebooted! Update 3 possible fix - I re-installed with an eval copy of 2012R2 with GUI to see if that fixed it but still had the same issues. My only fix seems to be uninstalling 7.4.0 and installing OMSA 7.3.0. I will now put my 2012R2 HyperV system back on and confirm that 7.3.0 works for it as well. Thanks Dave Name                             Slot ID          State      Firmware Version Storport Driver Version PERC H200 Adapter   PCI Slot 1   Ready    07.03.06.00             6.3.9600.17122
Openmanage 7.4.0 not picking up drive failure or removal until reboot