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Subject: Re: adaptec utilities on amd64?
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Doug Ambrisko wrote:

> Scott Long writes:
> | Vivek Khera wrote:
> | > On Nov 15, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Bruce Burden wrote:
> | > 
> | >>     I have a 2230SLP that I will be installing early next week
> | >>    on my AMD64 implementation. I am hoping that the aaccli program
> | >>    in ports will work.
> | > 
> | > If it has the newer firmware, it will not work with aaccli.  If you got 
> | > the card after they switched to the "R" revision, you have the newer 
> | > firmware.
> | > 
> | > Some time long ago, someone posted a very short C program that probes 
> | > the LSI controller and spits out this kind of output:
> | > 
> | > [root@d03]# amrstat
> | > Drive 0:    34.18 GB, RAID1 <writeback,no-read-ahead,no-adaptative-io> 
> | > optimal
> | > Drive 1:   102.54 GB, RAID1 <writeback,no-read-ahead,no-adaptative-io> 
> | > optimal
> | > 
> | > This is the kind of output I'd love to get from my adaptec controllers, 
> | > too.  This can be trivially scripted and hooked into a monitoring system 
> | > like nagios.
> | > 
> | > The aaccli tool is a curses based app (despite the "cli" in the name) 
> | > and scripting it is damn near impossible.  It doesn't even read commands 
> | > from stdin!
> | 
> | Yes, scripting it is possible, and it does have a non-interactive mode.
> | Try the following:
> | 
> | printf "open aac0\ncontroller details\nexit\n" | aaccli
> 
> Scott, did you forget about the cli mode:
> 	aaccli "open aac0: controller details"
> which produces very nice output :-)
> 
> Doug A.

I did.  When I wrote the previous email, I couldn't remember what the 
magic separator character was.  Thanks for the reminder.

Scott