From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 15:04:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767BF16A420 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:04:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ababurko@adelphia.net) Received: from pobox.webstakez.com (pobox.webstakez.com [24.75.44.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9412E43D45 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:04:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ababurko@adelphia.net) Received: (qmail 28701 invoked by uid 1014); 11 Oct 2005 15:08:01 -0000 Received: from 24.54.72.242 by pobox.webstakez.com (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.24 (clamdscan: 0.83/761. spamassassin: 2.64. perlscan: 1.24. Clear:RC:0(24.54.72.242):SA:0(-2.3/4.0):. Processed in 9.085783 secs); 11 Oct 2005 15:08:01 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=4.0 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ababurko@adelphia.net via pobox.webstakez.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.24 (Clear:RC:0(24.54.72.242):SA:0(-2.3/4.0):. Processed in 9.085783 secs) Received: from 24-54-72-242.kntnny.adelphia.net (HELO ?192.168.69.50?) (bob@phreakout.net@24.54.72.242) by pobox.webstakez.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 2005 15:07:51 -0000 Message-ID: <434BD463.7000802@adelphia.net> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:04:03 -0400 From: Bob Ababurko User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: RAID monitoring X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:04:24 -0000 I have emailed them and asked if they had anything to monitor the RAID array in a FreeBSD environment and they replied telling me that "they are not sure if Free BSD 5.4 will work with the Global array Manager or not " I did not come out and ask them to write me a driver. The Global Array Manager software that they have works with SCO Unix, Linux and Solaris...not to mention windoze. I was thinking about the and I think I may be able to get away with a script to parse syslog OR maybe I can configure syslog to send an email if I get a disk failure message sent to syslogd. Does anyone do something like this? -Bob Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > What does Mylex say? > > It might occur to some people that hardware companies have no incentive > to write FreeBSD drivers if the people who use their products NEVER > ASK FOR THEM! > > Just a thought. > > Ted > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bob Ababurko >>Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 1:23 PM >>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: RAID monitoring >> >> >>Hello all- >> >>I am looking for a way to monitor my Mylex acceleraid 250 controller >>that I am running under FreeBSD 5.4. Their global array manager >>software is an .exe so I kmow that is not going to be working. >> >>Does anyone have any solutions to monitor their RAID controllers? >> >>TIA, >>Bob >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >>-- >>Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >>Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: >>9/30/2005 >> > > I have emailed them and asked if they had anything to monitor the RAID array in FreeBSD environment and they replied telling me that "they are not sure if Free BSD 5.4 will work with the Global array Manager or not " The Global Array Manager software that they have works with SCO Unix, Linux and Solaris...not to mention windoze. I think I may be able to get away with a script to parse syslog OR maybe I can configure syslog to send an email if I get a disk failure message sent to syslogd. Does anyone do this? -Bob