[CentOS] c6, LSI megaraid drive failure notification

[Joseph L. Casale]

>i'm configuring a storage server with CentOS 6.2, it uses a LSI MegaRAID
>SAS controller, I'm using LSI's megacli to configure the storage...
>Any ideas on how to get drive failure notifications out of this
>system?   I'm configuring hot spares but I'd still like some sort of
>notification when a drive has failed so the spare can be replaced.

I've tried countless times to get the LSI snmp agent designed just for this
to work in CentOS 5 and 6, no luck.

Resorted to a pathetic snmp extend that runs megacli, sigh...