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

Thu Mar 14 14:55:18 UTC 2019
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> 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.

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

Regards,
Simon