On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:26 PM, Daryl wrote:

Hi All,

Background: I have HP RAID setups (Smart Array 5, shows up as /dev/ cciss/c0d0) on my DL380s, and they run great with CentOS. I have had a drive failure (HDD lights up amber), so I pulled the HDD, replaced it and the RAID controller rebuilt the array in a jiffy - no probs.

My question: I cant find anything in the logs to alert me that a drive failed - this makes sense since the RAID is hardware, so i presume i need some management software however i cant find anything on HP or Compaq's sites to tell me what software i need to be running. I imaging it is something like cpq_alert or such. | Does anyone on the list run HP or Compaq hotswapable kit? How do you get alerted to failures?

Download the whole Proliant Support Pack for the appropriate RHEL version:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/psp/index.html

It's been a little while, but I believe you'll have to play with /etc/ issue to get the installer to run.

Using the PSP is *much* easier than installing the various Proliant linux utilities piecemeal.

-steve

On 19/10/06, Daryl mrkiwi@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

Background: I have HP RAID setups (Smart Array 5, shows up as /dev/cciss/c0d0) on my DL380s, and they run great with CentOS. I have had a drive failure (HDD lights up amber), so I pulled the HDD, replaced it and the RAID controller rebuilt the array in a jiffy - no probs.

My question: I cant find anything in the logs to alert me that a drive failed - this makes sense since the RAID is hardware, so i presume i need some management software however i cant find anything on HP or Compaq's sites to tell me what software i need to be running. I imaging it is something like cpq_alert or such. | Does anyone on the list run HP or Compaq hotswapable kit? How do you get alerted to failures?

As the other have pointed out, you want to grab the appropriate PSP and work from there. Here's a quick note with some docs from the last time I setup a couple of HP systems...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've done a bit of reading on the HP specific stuff. They provide a nice single tarball for each system with all the RPMs for disk, network, iLO, RAID controllers etc.

That'll allow you to control iLO and RAID configuration from the OS command line among other things. Obviously you need non-OS access to the iLO too but for the initial config it's invaluable. :)

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- HP ProLiant DL380 G4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86)

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/supportsoftware/linux/psp-7.40.rhel4.linux.en.tar.gz

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/WebDoc/720/psp-users-guide...

From http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22655.html

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The ProLiant Support Pack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is an advanced software delivery tool. The ProLiant Support Pack does not create diskettes. You should copy the Support Pack directly to a separate folder on your test platform before beginning installation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'd recommend having a thorough read through the docs to make sure you know what you need and that *only* the required services are enabled/chkonfig-ed on when you're done.

IIRC, there's a load of web interfaced stuff that should either be disabled or secured (i.e. have default passwords changed etc.)

Will.