From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 16:59:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C432D1065670 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517998FC08 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:59:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaaf13 with SMTP id f13so534700eaa.13 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:59:08 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=1ClXFk9pXTMDfSlzpePysGPiQhGU7HLe5WItdeIso78=; b=aV8pDkjL6Hf7zVEY+xmBD6oyJndmeuF91hVaJCdDTH33cTl/++i548c3sl/i27OgYj 6f6L2E9xtv0sIXff7SWkkVpHW7QDQSVfD3GfQWqqjW0PA9NDAcfXqbTGnvTu+CTnB75a FX0qX1WYuYqv6/XqZWHU7wqPoRN+FNtBKzgJNgEUhCCNIxDFqA0/zP0LD/1aSKcnfLfm CQqZe04q1E2ISl/O8UVlQVr8BPM/M0G7v+HlCP+8oFIOzSZWzQz2eE02f4VHdd5GnIiN sgGkYxa9P90wFGFAiNfPX2yymAHPKkK29BRs0InFaBJeejDV8hxVrTRVVE5Lt+KFMYJ9 mAMw== Received: by 10.213.15.206 with SMTP id l14mr335137eba.285.1331312348265; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot.local ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h47sm20017205eea.10.2012.03.09.08.59.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:59:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F5A36DA.90807@my.gd> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:59:06 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <1331230126.3075.13.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> <4F59EF04.3070806@my.gd> <4F5A3595.5070208@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F5A3595.5070208@unsane.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnQuIRMB2MGIzSzmCIyg/5hmKNg3QyVNN3n98kqYKpw5jxcVKYbUWJ/HPV4Ko+dF0K1+Rec Subject: Re: mfid, raid monitoring daemon X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:59:09 -0000 On 3/9/12 5:53 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 09/03/2012 11:52, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> On 3/8/12 7:08 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: >>> I'm trying to decide if I should cram "mfid" for mfi(4) controllers into >>> the src tree or if we should package it up into a ports package. I >>> suspect that either one is acceptible, but it seems to make more sense >>> to put it into the src tree since mfiutil is also there. >>> >>> Comments? >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> ref: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/sbruno/mfid/ >> >> For what it's worth, we use the following plugin for our Nagios RAID >> checks on MFI controllers. >> I'm attaching the nagios script below for those that are interested. >> The downside is it uses Megacli and all the linux compatibility stuff :( >> >> >> >> I for one would be *delighted* if a system came up that would allow me >> to skip the whole linux compatibility layer ! >> > Can you not get enough info via mfiutil? not to mention there is a > FreeBSD megacli > sysutils/megacli as well as sysutils/linux-megacli > > that said I favour a port for the reasons you give below. > > Vince We've never tried with mfiutil actually, could be worth a look. Regarding megacli, we're using the linux one and I'd be so happy to get shot of it, too many dependencies...