On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:10 -0500, Bob Lewkowitz wrote:
Hello list, I see through the archives that some people here use 3ware RAID controllers with Centos. I have picked up two 9500S-4LP controllers for future servers. I was hoping that if some people could please share their 3ware monitoring scripts with the rest of the group. What I am really hoping to do is have some setup where a cron job runs scripts to test each of the drives connected to the controller to make sure they are not going to break any time soon and then check the health of the array itself. I am used to using smartd for basic SCSI and IDE drives but not connected to this adapter.
3Ware's 3DM2 software does this for you. It's quite powerful. ;->
http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp?code=9&id=9.2.1.1&softtype...
Any good souls out there want to spread the knowledge?
You can still trap the error messages the kernel sends to syslog. But I highly recommend you load 3DM2 instead. It lets you do a lot of things. And because of how the 3Ware card operates, it lets you avoid having to send signals or traps to the kernel to do things (e.g., hotplug _never_ touches system hardware, it's all controlled by the on-board 3Ware intelligence).