[gpfsug-discuss] mmchconfig ESS error

[Sanchez, Paul]

You’re probably missing these…

gpfs.gnr-5.1.5-1.ppc64le
gpfs.gnr.base-1.0.0-0.ppc64le

They’re hard to get from fixcentral unless you have an Erasure Code Edition license. IIRC, they’re in the fixcentral ESS upgrade bundle though which you can unpack and pluck the RPMs out of.  The only catch is that while you can download any version of your entitled editions/architectures of GPFS from fixcentral… if the only way you’re getting these for ESS on ppc64le is via the IBM tested and released upgrade bundles then you don’t have access to arbitrary GPFS versions but rather just the ones which made it into a periodic ESS release.

-Paul

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Try running  the following:

# script mmchconfig.log
# DEBUG=1  ; mmchconfig  release=LATEST
# exit

Then you can open a ticket to the Spectrum Scale queue   and upload the mmchconfig.log along with a gpfs.snap from the node.


On Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 03:52:43 PM EST, Anderson Ferreira Nobre <anobre at br.ibm.com<mailto:anobre at br.ibm.com>> wrote:



Hi Jenny,



Try to run the upgrade with spectrumscale command. Perhaps it gives you more insight about what’s missing.



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We are trying to manually upgrade Spectrum Scale from 5. 1. 2. 1 to 5. 1. 5. 1 The mmbuildgpl completes successfully however when we run mmchconfig to bring the software up to the latest we get complaints about Elastic Storage Server and a package

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We are trying to manually upgrade Spectrum Scale from 5.1.2.1 to 5.1.5.1

The mmbuildgpl  completes successfully however when we run mmchconfig to bring the software up to the latest we get complaints about Elastic Storage Server and a package that is required for ESS.  Our box has no installation of ESS. Is there a way to bypass or has anyone else encountered a situation like this? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. We have combed google, look through logs, but there is not much information.



mmchconfig release=LATEST

mmchconfig: Verify you are executing the command on an ESS/GSS node and that the gpfs.gnr package is properly installed.

mmchconfig: Command failed. Examine previous error messages to determine cause.



Here are the rpm packages installed

gpfs.license.adv-5.1.5-1.ppc64le

gpfs.base-5.1.5-1.ppc64le

gpfs.docs-5.1.5-1.noarch

gpfs.gss.pmsensors-5.1.5-1.el8.ppc64le

gpfs.adv-5.1.5-1.ppc64le

gpfs.gpl-5.1.5-1.noarch

gpfs.compression-5.1.5-1.ppc64le

gpfs.gskit-8.0.55-19.1.ppc64le

gpfs.msg.en_US-5.1.5-1.noarch



RH OS level is 8.7

Architect: ppc64le





Jenny Poling

IT Specialist  / HPSS Test Team

IGNITE/Test Innovation

Global Business Services - Public Service

713.582.7690(c)

jpoling at us.ibm.com<mailto:jpoling at us.ibm.com>; www.hpss-collaboration.org<http://www.hpss-collaboration.org>


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