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? 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?