On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Raymond Lillardrlillard@sonic.net wrote:
Dear list,
I have inherited a CentOS-5 box with a LSI Sata Raid controller. It is configured as a RAID5 w/hot-standby. My concern is that I have no present means of determining the RAID status w/o downing the system and going into the bios to get status. If a disk has failed and brought the standby disk online, I would like to know about it, the day it happens by seeing it in syslog or getting an e-mail message.
The only solution I have found is on the LSI web-site. It is tool called "MegaMon for Linux". It most recent release was in 2005 and it requires that I use their driver. Just the package title gives me chills. It runs as a daemon and is almost constantly polling the h/w .
I would much prefer a simple command line tool that I can wrap a script around and run it under cron.
My questions are:
- Does anyone know of a command line tool ?
I've had pretty good luck with mpt-status:
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/18/compiling-mpt-status-on-centos...
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/02/03/monitoring-lsi-logic-raid-cont...
- Failing a positive response to #1, has anyone any experience
with "MegaMon for Linux", good or otherwise ?
I haven't had a chance to look at MegaMon, but would love to hear your thoughts if you get a chance to play with it.
- Ryan -- http://prefetch.net