Spiro Harvey wrote: > > 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 ? > > We use 3Ware RAID cards, and they have a CLI util called tw_cli. We > run "tw_cli info c0" every hour into a rotating file. Then from > crontab we run a script that diffs the current output to the last > hour's output. > > If there's a difference, it emails us. The current 3Ware software has an option to email errors. You shouldn't need to do anything that fancy just to find out if something fails. -- Bowie