[CentOS] Hardware raid health?

Mon Aug 25 20:11:16 UTC 2014
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

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> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:03
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> Subject: [CentOS] Hardware raid health?
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> 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

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