[CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

Thu May 28 17:10:30 UTC 2009
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 5-28-2009 9:25 AM Dianne Yumul spake the following:
> Thanks for the help Karanbir and Rainer.
> 
>> That sounds quite silly - also going through reboots means downtime,
>> isnt that the sort of thing that raid1 was designed to protect against
>> anyway.
> 
> I guess it would be silly :). I just wanted to make sure it was doing  
> what it ought too.
> 
>>> Have you looked into adaptec supplied management s/w ? In pretty much
>>> ever case with such hba's the most functional way to look at state  
>>> and
>>> do any management on raid tends to be from vendor supplied s/w
>> Adaptec - I don't know.
>> They aquired a lot of companies over the years and thus the quality of
>> the management-apps is/was sometimes questionable - and you never knew
>> which one was good and which one wasn't as it varied between different
>> revisions of the same hardware (which might have a similar name but a
>> totally different tech inside...).
> 
> I checked the Adaptec site again and found a link to the Adaptec  
> Storage Manager.
> I don't know how I missed that, thanks for the push in the right  
> direction.
> Hopefully it works.
> 
It worked for me when I ran a 2800S, but it is far from a light weight app.

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