> I have a Dell 1900 with a perc5 raid controller <snip> > I'm wondering how I can monitor the disks, etc... Most hardware RAID manufacturers have software you can download that interfaces with the raid controller to monitor and/or make changes to the underlying controller. At work we use IBM servers which have a java based app called ServeRAID that allows me to monitor the underlying RAID array, as well as create new arrays while the system is live, which I have set to notify me if something goes wrong. That said, I don't know about Dell but our IBM's also have an orange indicator light on the drive bays so if a drive is kicked I can see it first thing when I get into the office to swap tapes. That's usually the first warning I get that something is amiss. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
