Hi,
I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
What's the best way to do that?
I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
What's the best way to do that?
It's been a long time since I worked with ServeRaid, and things may have changed in the meantime.
IBM used to have a an iso with ServeRaid related tools (ibm_sw_srapp_.....) that included Linux versions of RaidMan. There were also command line tools like arcconf and hrconf that I used to write my own nagios plugins.
Can't say how up to date this is. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm1SERV-RAID
On 3/14/19 2:31 PM, isdtor wrote:
I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
What's the best way to do that?
It's been a long time since I worked with ServeRaid, and things may have changed in the meantime.
IBM used to have a an iso with ServeRaid related tools (ibm_sw_srapp_.....) that included Linux versions of RaidMan. There were also command line tools like arcconf and hrconf that I used to write my own nagios plugins.
Can't say how up to date this is. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm1SERV-RAID
Thanks, that's a good link!
It seems there used to be a program called ipssend, but apparently there are only questionable 32bit versions.
The only thing I really need is to know when a disk fails ...
Does someone remember if the BMC of an IBM x3650 can tell you that? Even if I had to look it up from time to time, that would be better than nothing.
Google says that is an Adaptec card using the aacraid driver and the arcconf utility, see here: https://hwraid.le-vert.net/wiki/Adaptec
Scott
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:24 AM hwilmer hw@gc-24.de wrote:
On 3/14/19 2:31 PM, isdtor wrote:
I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in
a
server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
What's the best way to do that?
It's been a long time since I worked with ServeRaid, and things may have
changed in the meantime.
IBM used to have a an iso with ServeRaid related tools
(ibm_sw_srapp_.....) that included Linux versions of RaidMan. There were also command line tools like arcconf and hrconf that I used to write my own nagios plugins.
Can't say how up to date this is. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm1SERV-RAID
Thanks, that's a good link!
It seems there used to be a program called ipssend, but apparently there are only questionable 32bit versions.
The only thing I really need is to know when a disk fails ...
Does someone remember if the BMC of an IBM x3650 can tell you that? Even if I had to look it up from time to time, that would be better than nothing. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
hwilmer wrote:
I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
What's the best way to do that?
From a *really* short search, see it has a controller card If you do an
lspci, what does that tell you - is it yet another rebranded LSI card? If so, MegaRAID.
mark
hwilmer wrote:
I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
What's the best way to do that?
From a *really* short search, see it has a controller card If you do an lspci, what does that tell you - is it yet another rebranded LSI card? If so, MegaRAID.
The old IBM Netfinity Servers had ServeRaid controllers and they were from IBM and had nothing to do with LSI.
IIRC I've monitored those RAIDs with the ipssend utility back in the last millennium (really, 1999) :-)
Regards, Simon
On 3/14/19 3:55 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
hwilmer wrote:
I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
What's the best way to do that?
From a *really* short search, see it has a controller card If you do an lspci, what does that tell you - is it yet another rebranded LSI card? If so, MegaRAID.
The old IBM Netfinity Servers had ServeRaid controllers and they were from IBM and had nothing to do with LSI.
Yeah that's why I wasn't surprised that the megaraid tool didn't find any controllers.
IIRC I've monitored those RAIDs with the ipssend utility back in the last millennium (really, 1999) :-)
This one is a bit newer :)
I found asm_linux_x64_v7_31_18856.tgz, and after installing compat-libstdc++-33, stuff like 'arcconf GETCONFIG 1' works.
This is pretty cool :)
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