> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digimer
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:23
>
> On 25/08/14 04:11 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
> >> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:03
> >> To: CentOS mailing list
> >> 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?
Locked up the OS, not the array. Power cycled after the array synced the new drive 6 hours later.
On a Dell PE2970
Product Name : PERC 6/i Integrated
FW Package Build: 6.2.0-0013
Mfg. Data
================
Mfg. Date : 06/24/08
Rework Date : 06/24/08
Revision No :
Battery FRU : N/A
Image Versions in Flash:
================
FW Version : 1.22.02-0612
BIOS Version : 2.04.00
WebBIOS Version : 1.1-46-e_15-Rel
Ctrl-R Version : 1.02-015B
Preboot CLI Version: 01.00-023:#%00006
Boot Block Version : 1.00.00.01-0011
MegaCLI SAS RAID Management Tool Ver 8.05.71 Apr 30, 2013
$ while MegaCli64 -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [32:1] -aALL; do sleep 1; done
The sleep 1 was abusive!
>
> I use it extensively so this worries me. :)
>
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