On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Raymond Lillard<rlillard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I have inherited a CentOS-5 box with a LSI Sata Raid controller.
> It is configured as a RAID5 w/hot-standby. My concern is that
> I have no present means of determining the RAID status w/o
> downing the system and going into the bios to get status. If
> a disk has failed and brought the standby disk online, I would
> like to know about it, the day it happens by seeing it in syslog
> or getting an e-mail message.
>
> The only solution I have found is on the LSI web-site. It is
> tool called "MegaMon for Linux". It most recent release was
> in 2005 and it requires that I use their driver. Just the
> package title gives me chills. It runs as a daemon and is
> almost constantly polling the h/w .
>
> I would much prefer a simple command line tool that I can
> wrap a script around and run it under cron.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Does anyone know of a command line tool ?
I've had pretty good luck with mpt-status:
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/18/compiling-mpt-status-on-centos-hosts/
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/02/03/monitoring-lsi-logic-raid-controllers/
> 2. Failing a positive response to #1, has anyone any experience
> with "MegaMon for Linux", good or otherwise ?
I haven't had a chance to look at MegaMon, but would love to hear your
thoughts if you get a chance to play with it.
- Ryan
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