[CentOS] howto monitor disks on a serveraid-8k?

[hwilmer]

On 3/14/19 2:31 PM, isdtor wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in a
>> server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails.
>>
>> What's the best way to do that?
> 
> It's been a long time since I worked with ServeRaid, and things may have changed in the meantime.
> 
> IBM used to have a an iso with ServeRaid related tools (ibm_sw_srapp_.....) that included Linux versions of RaidMan. There were also command line tools like arcconf and hrconf that I used to write my own nagios plugins.
> 
> Can't say how up to date this is.
> https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm1SERV-RAID

Thanks, that's a good link!

It seems there used to be a program called ipssend, but apparently there 
are only questionable 32bit versions.

The only thing I really need is to know when a disk fails ...

Does someone remember if the BMC of an IBM x3650 can tell you that? 
Even if I had to look it up from time to time, that would be better than 
nothing.