On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 at 5:53pm, Fred Kienker wrote >> It's a dell 2900 : >> quad core XEON (with a spare slot for a 2nd quad core chip) >> 8G memory (expandable to 64G) >> 8 hot swap SATA HD slots onboard >> PERC6i RAID controller *snip* >> Now I want to be able to monitor the box, specifically with >> respect to the RAID drives so I'll know if one has gone bad >> and the RAID configuration has failed over to it. Anyone have >> any suggestions for tools to use ? > > You need the Dell OMSA tools. They are easy to install and work great > with CentOS. Google Dell and OMSA to find them. You can add the Dell > repository to yum to make it even easier to install and maintain them. If you're like me and generally hate vendor tools, I believe that Dell's PERC controllers are rebadged LSIs. LSI has a command line tool you can use to monitor them. MegaCli is more than just a bit obtuse, but a little bit of scripting goes a long way. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF