> -----Original Message----- > From: Digimer > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:23 > > On 25/08/14 04:11 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> -----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 > > Can you share any detail on this? Controller/drive model? MegaCli > version? How exactly did it lock up? Locked up the OS, not the array. Power cycled after the array synced the new drive 6 hours later. On a Dell PE2970 Product Name : PERC 6/i Integrated FW Package Build: 6.2.0-0013 Mfg. Data ================ Mfg. Date : 06/24/08 Rework Date : 06/24/08 Revision No : Battery FRU : N/A Image Versions in Flash: ================ FW Version : 1.22.02-0612 BIOS Version : 2.04.00 WebBIOS Version : 1.1-46-e_15-Rel Ctrl-R Version : 1.02-015B Preboot CLI Version: 01.00-023:#%00006 Boot Block Version : 1.00.00.01-0011 MegaCLI SAS RAID Management Tool Ver 8.05.71 Apr 30, 2013 $ while MegaCli64 -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [32:1] -aALL; do sleep 1; done The sleep 1 was abusive! > > I use it extensively so this worries me. :) > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ > What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a > person without > access to education? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >