Once you have dell's aacraid tool installed, I used the check_raid.pl script at http://www.nagiosexchange.org/DELL_Server.61.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1% 5Bp_view%5D=12

to integrate in with Nagios.

Get the afaapps tools from Dell's site however, since they are newer.

Tarun

On Jul 12, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Dan Pritts wrote:

you can get 'dellmgr' for dell's aacraid-derived raid cards. it's curses, not cli, but it works ok. essentially it's the same as what's in the RAID firmware you get at the boot prompt.

not sure it will work for your system but worth a shot.

linux.dell.com

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:57:33PM -0500, alex@milivojevic.org wrote:

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I've got myself an Adaptec 2200 HW RAID card to play for couple of days. Tha card uses aacraid device driver. Seems to work nicely, however just wandering if there's a tool (prefferably CLI) for CentOS that can read out RAID configuration data, status of individual drives, maybe even manage (create/delete) RAID devices?

Thanks for any and all pointers.

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Tarun Reddy wrote:

Once you have dell's aacraid tool installed, I used the check_raid.pl script at http://www.nagiosexchange.org/DELL_Server.61.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1% 5Bp_view%5D=12

to integrate in with Nagios.

Get the afaapps tools from Dell's site however, since they are newer.

Thanks Tarun and Dan. I've found afaapps package after searching Dell's website. The (older) dellmgr was unable to detect my card (I guess it supports older cards), but tools from afaaps worked great. The tool almost immediately showed me a problem with one of the drives that I would be unaware of without it (apperently, there were errros on one of the buses, so bus speed backed all the way down to 5MHz, giving only 10 MB/s transfer rate). I've noticed a bit lower performance, but I initially tought it was just due to the relatively older disks I was playing with.

The only thing is that afaaps package assumes old monolitic /dev. I need to write config file for udev, so that afa0 device is created during boot under CentOS. If I manage to come up with something, I'll share it to the list.

Thanks again for great pointers, Aleksandar Milivojevic