> > Do you mean this java monstrosity or is there anything "smarter" > available by now? > > That's more than annoying, why can't this sucking driver report via > /proc so you could monitor disks with your favourite monitoring program. > Yep, i meant the serveraid manager agent ... reporting to an IBM director server .... If you only have a limited number of machines and you don't want to setup the full java base Serveraid manager you can still just use cli (located on the serveraid manager cd) : depending on the controller version you have you can use either ipssend , hrconf or arcconf tool. For such solutions i just write a little bash script that query the controller/disk status and crontab it ...