[CentOS] c6, LSI megaraid drive failure notification

Thu Dec 22 23:56:59 UTC 2011
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 12/22/11 3:28 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> i'm configuring a storage server with CentOS 6.2, it uses a LSI MegaRAID
>> >SAS controller, I'm using LSI's megacli to configure the storage...
>> >Any ideas on how to get drive failure notifications out of this
>> >system?   I'm configuring hot spares but I'd still like some sort of
>> >notification when a drive has failed so the spare can be replaced.
> I've tried countless times to get the LSI snmp agent designed just for this
> to work in CentOS 5 and 6, no luck.
>
> Resorted to a pathetic snmp extend that runs megacli, sigh...

I just installed the Linux MSM package from LSI...

I had to add these packages to a minimal 6.2 install for what its worth...

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    yum install libstdc++.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 libX11 libX11.i686 libXi libXi.i686 libXtst libXtst.i686 xauth net-snmp net-snmp-utils csh

The X stuff was required by the GUI manager, I suspect if you did a 
agent-only install, that wouldn't be needed.

I'm a total novice when it comes to snmp.     but i'm reading some 
howto's and stumbling around.



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