Raid monitoring on 2850

[Bill Carlson]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 05:12:37AM -0400, Michael A. Krause Sr. wrote:
> We are hoping that you may be able to help us or point us in the right 
> direction.
> 
> We purchased a Poweredge 2850 with embedded perc4 raid 5.
> We had it preinstalled with Suse Enterprise 9.
> It has been working great.

I'm going to assume this is a Perc 4/i or at least an LSI card.

> The question is, how can we monitor the raid status from within the OS via 
> SSH or what not? We may need to offsite it soon and there will be no one to 

You will want the megarc utility, it can query the adapter from linux.

An example command to pull Logical Drive info:

megarc -ldInfo -a0 -Lall -nolog

which will pull Logical Drive information from adapter zero on all LDs
without generating a logfile. Add a dash of perl to monitor from cron and
such.

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