On Dec 22, 2011, at 1:12 PM, John R Pierce 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. ---- don't know how to do it on CentOS but on Ubuntu, I use megaclisas-status package which goes hand in hand with megacli and it sends notifications. If you want, I can e-mail you the megaclisas-status script from /usr/sbin and beyond that, there's a sysv initscript that periodically checks and sends an e-mail. Simple enough. Craig