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. Any good souls out there want to spread the knowledge?
thx, Bob
On Sunday 27 November 2005 21:10, Bob Lewkowitz wrote:
ello 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. Any good souls out there want to spread the knowledge?
If you're running 4 you don't need to write your own scripts - smartd can monitor the drives behind a 3ware controller.
Peter.
On 11/27/05, Peter Arremann loony@loonybin.org wrote:
If you're running 4 you don't need to write your own scripts - smartd can monitor the drives behind a 3ware controller.
Unfortunately it will be with Centos 3
thx, Bob
On 11/27/05, Bob Lewkowitz boblewkowitz@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/27/05, Peter Arremann loony@loonybin.org wrote:
If you're running 4 you don't need to write your own scripts - smartd can monitor the drives behind a 3ware controller.
Unfortunately it will be with Centos 3
While it may be a bit of overkill in your situation ( I have no idea what your situation is ) I monitor our raid enclosures of all types 3ware included with nagios plugins to report several things. If you're already using nagios to monitor other server items, it blends easily. If not, the check_3ware plugin for nagios is essentially just two shell scripts. You may be able to edit them or add them to a cron on your own to suit your needs. They're located at http://www.nagiosexchange.org/RAID_Controller.58.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi...
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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).
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. Any good souls out there want to spread the knowledge?
thx, Bob
Aren't 3dmd2 complete enough?
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