> 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 The thick clouds of rolling smoke and the open flames might also lend a clue... :-) -- 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
