On 25/08/14 04:11 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
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>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
>> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:03
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>> Subject: Hardware raid health?
>>
>> I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have both
>> drives go bad. With local machines I probably would have caught it
>> from the drive light before the 2nd one died... What is the state of
>> the art in linux software monitoring for this? Long ago when that
>> box was set up I think the best I could have done was a Java GUI tool
>> that IBM had for their servers - and that seemed like overkill for a
>> simple monitor. Is there anything more lightweight that knows about
>> the underlying drives in a hardware raid set on IBM's - and also
>> recent HP servers?
>
> We use MegaCLI, but it has the risk of hanging the box (observed only once).
>
> Just changed out a drive last night because of it.
>
> -Jason
Can you share any detail on this? Controller/drive model? MegaCli
version? How exactly did it lock up?
I use it extensively so this worries me. :)
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