On 12/22/11 1:32 PM, Craig White wrote: > 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. not having much luck locating that megaclisas-status script http://hwraid.le-vert.net/wiki/LSIMegaRAIDSAS talks about it, but the source is nowhere to be found I found this, which looks moderately interesting, but I'm not a python programmer http://windowsmasher.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/using-megacli-to-monitor-openfiler-rev2/ -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast