[CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

Fri May 29 15:14:42 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:25 -0700, Dianne Yumul wrote:
> Thanks for the help Karanbir and Rainer.
> 
> > That sounds quite silly - also going through reboots means downtime,
> > isnt that the sort of thing that raid1 was designed to protect against
> > anyway.
> 
> I guess it would be silly :). I just wanted to make sure it was doing  
> what it ought too.
> 
> >> Have you looked into adaptec supplied management s/w ? In pretty much
> >> ever case with such hba's the most functional way to look at state  
> >> and
> >> do any management on raid tends to be from vendor supplied s/w
> >
> > Adaptec - I don't know.
> > They aquired a lot of companies over the years and thus the quality of
> > the management-apps is/was sometimes questionable - and you never knew
> > which one was good and which one wasn't as it varied between different
> > revisions of the same hardware (which might have a similar name but a
> > totally different tech inside...).
> 
> I checked the Adaptec site again and found a link to the Adaptec  
> Storage Manager.

Be aware the Storage Manager does not support CentOS 5.

> I don't know how I missed that, thanks for the push in the right  
> direction.
> Hopefully it works.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> dianne
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