Thanks to both of you who replied. Mr. Vilensky's approach seemed easiest and his google powers exceed mine. The link he provided was the key. http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=2416.html;d=1 The only issue for me was that the megarc URL has been changed. I found the package at: http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/files/support/rsa/utilities/megaconf/ut_linux_megarc_1.11.zip Problem solved. Best to all, Ray Raymond Lillard wrote: > Dear list, > > I have inherited a CentOS-5 box with a LSI Sata Raid controller. > It is configured as a RAID5 w/hot-standby. My concern is that > I have no present means of determining the RAID status w/o > downing the system and going into the bios to get status. If > a disk has failed and brought the standby disk online, I would > like to know about it, the day it happens by seeing it in syslog > or getting an e-mail message. > > The only solution I have found is on the LSI web-site. It is > tool called "MegaMon for Linux". It most recent release was > in 2005 and it requires that I use their driver. Just the > package title gives me chills. It runs as a daemon and is > almost constantly polling the h/w . > > I would much prefer a simple command line tool that I can > wrap a script around and run it under cron. > > My questions are: > > 1. Does anyone know of a command line tool ? > > 2. Failing a positive response to #1, has anyone any experience > with "MegaMon for Linux", good or otherwise ? > > Thanks to all, > Ray > > > The h/w is a dual Opteron dual-core system with lots of memory. > The relevant dmesg lines and lspci output are shown below: > > dmesg: > > megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006) > megaraid: 2.20.5.1 (Release Date: Thu Nov 16 15:32:35 EST 2006) > megaraid: probe new device 0x1000:0x0409:0x1000:0x3008: bus 3:slot 14:func 0 > GSI 17 sharing vector 0xA8 and IRQ 17 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:0e.0[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > megaraid: fw version:[814B] bios version:[H431] > scsi5 : LSI Logic MegaRAID driver > scsi[5]: scanning scsi channel 0 [Phy 0] for non-raid devices > scsi[5]: scanning scsi channel 1 [virtual] for logical drives > Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD 0 RAID5 1144G Rev: 814B > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > *SCSI device sdc: 2343745536 512-byte hdwr sectors (1199998 MB) > *sdc: Write Protect is off > *sdc: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 > *sdc: asking for cache data failed > *sdc: assuming drive cache: write through > *SCSI device sdc: 2343745536 512-byte hdwr sectors (1199998 MB) > *sdc: Write Protect is off > *sdc: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 > *sdc: asking for cache data failed > *sdc: assuming drive cache: write through > * sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 > *sd 5:1:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc > > > lspci -v > > 03:0e.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID (rev 0a) > Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SATA 300-8X RAID Controller > Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 > Memory at cfcf0000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] > Memory at fe500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Expansion ROM at fe4e0000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable- > Capabilities: [e0] PCI-X non-bridge device > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos