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

[hwilmer]

On 3/14/19 3:55 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
>> hwilmer 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?
>>
>>  From a *really* short search, see it has a controller card If you do an
>> lspci, what does that tell you - is it yet another rebranded LSI card? If
>> so, MegaRAID.
> 
> The old IBM Netfinity Servers had ServeRaid controllers and they were from
> IBM and had nothing to do with LSI.

Yeah that's why I wasn't surprised that the megaraid tool didn't find 
any controllers.

> IIRC I've monitored those RAIDs with the ipssend utility back in the last
> millennium (really, 1999) :-)

This one is a bit newer :)

I found asm_linux_x64_v7_31_18856.tgz, and after installing 
compat-libstdc++-33, stuff like 'arcconf GETCONFIG 1' works.

This is pretty cool :)