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From: Sascha Holzleiter <sascha@daemonground.de>
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Hi,

thanks for the input on this.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:08:28PM +0100, kama wrote:
> > > do you know of any method to monitor these [ciss] controllers with FreeBSD,
> > > e.g. to detect drive failures?
> >
> > You could simply monitor the corresponding ciss syslog-messages
> > and scan for state changes (ie from OK to something else). Apart
> > from reboot-messages, you only get messages if states are
> > changing...

This is what is done already but I always wanted to watch the drives
directly. The camcontrol approach seems to satisfy this.

> Maybe this is what you are looking for?
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/

Also looks promising, I'll definitly try the hpasmcli util and hope
there is more to it than the screenshot is showing :)


Thanks,

-- 
  Sascha