From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 29 13:17:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8E416A407 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:17:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) Received: from mail9.messagelabs.com (mail9.messagelabs.com [194.205.110.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1B2C43D45 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:17:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: greg@wholemeal.net X-Msg-Ref: server-7.tower-9.messagelabs.com!1162127864!2399560!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.10.7; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [212.135.210.82] Received: (qmail 8042 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2006 13:17:44 -0000 Received: from dsl-212-135-210-82.dsl.easynet.co.uk (HELO warprecords.com) (212.135.210.82) by server-7.tower-9.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2006 13:17:44 -0000 Received: from [194.106.52.52] (HELO [192.168.0.2]) by warprecords.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.10) with ESMTPS id 6933440 for freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:17:44 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <20061029120043.A82EF16A5C3@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20061029120043.A82EF16A5C3@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Greg Eden Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:17:42 +0000 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Re: freebsd-proliant Digest, Vol 39, Issue 4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:17:46 -0000 On 29 Oct 2006, at 12:00, freebsd-proliant-request@freebsd.org wrote: > So the question is: how do *you* monitor the status of your disks > and RAID arrays? Any suggestions will be appriciated. I stumbled across this thread (http://atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd- stable-2005/msg09274.html) recently which details one method, assuming you are using the ciss driver. Essentially you monitor syslog output for status changes from the driver. best. greg.