> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:03 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Hardware raid health? > > I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have both > drives go bad. With local machines I probably would have caught it > from the drive light before the 2nd one died... What is the state of > the art in linux software monitoring for this? Long ago when that > box was set up I think the best I could have done was a Java GUI tool > that IBM had for their servers - and that seemed like overkill for a > simple monitor. Is there anything more lightweight that knows about > the underlying drives in a hardware raid set on IBM's - and also > recent HP servers? We use MegaCLI, but it has the risk of hanging the box (observed only once). Just changed out a drive last night because of it. -Jason -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.