Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > If you use the hw raid, you can easily manager your raid array with > > either ipssend cli or ServeRAID manager gui (both are downloadable from > > IBM support website) > > Faultdetection sucks with that, but you can use ipmitool for that: > > [root at on3-3550 ~]# ipmitool sdr|grep Drive > Drive 1 Status | 0x01 | ok > Drive 2 Status | 0x01 | ok > Drive 3 Status | Not Readable | ns > Drive 4 Status | Not Readable | ns > [root at on3-3550 ~]# I installed the OpenIPMI packages but when I run the above command I get the following: (geppetto pts5) # ipmitool sdr Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory Get Device ID command failed Unable to open SDR for reading (geppetto pts6) # rpm -qa | grep -i ipmi OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.6-6.el5 OpenIPMI-2.0.6-6.el5 OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.6-6.el5 (geppetto pts6) # lsmod | grep -i ipmi (geppetto pts6) # Is there something special that needs to be done to enable ipmitool? lsmod shows that none of the ipmi modules are loaded. Do I need some magic incantation in /etc/modules.conf or is there some other package I need? the machine is an ibm X3655 with C5 installed on it. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com