Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:04:30 -0400 From: "Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra" <ketrien@error404.nls.net> To: Simon <simon@optinet.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitoring LSI MegaRAID 320-1 Message-ID: <4166E4BE.2060402@error404.nls.net> In-Reply-To: <20041008170717.2728D43D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041008170717.2728D43D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Simon wrote: >Hello Folks! > >I have several servers with LSI MegaRAID 320-1 controllers. What do >you all use to monitor the arrays? how is one supposed to know when >a drive dies, remotely? I found a utility MegaControl which does exactly >this, but it is buggy and causes my servers to malfunction and start >panicing left and right. I noticed that the array would be reinitialized in background after installing MegaControl which made no sense since the array was already %100 initialized. This would of course corrupt the live system and was probably the cause of panics. > >Any insights on this would be appreciated! > amr(4) provides a cam passthrough function, which exposes the individual drives cleanly. (I've tested this on 320-2 and 320-0.) I'd use camcontrol rather than megacontrol, but bear in mind that, AFAIK, camcontrol cannot tell you the array status, only individual drive status. -Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra | ketrien AT error404 DOT nls DOT net
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