aacraid style monitoring for megaraid2, use DELL_megaraid2.monitoring.tar.gz

[Ronan Mullally]

Hi Matt,

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Matt Domsch wrote:

> LSI hasn't chosen to make that code open source.  Heck, given that it
> can be improperly used to cause damage, a lot of folks would prefer
> that it weren't in the the hands of end users at all.

The 'rm' command can be used to cause damage, as can fdisk, mkfs, cat
or a bread knife [*].  If people are dumb enough to misuse tools they've
got then on their heads be it.

> > Most of the systems I maintain are running 64-bit and specifically don't
> > have 32-bit binary support.
>
> Can you not install the 32-bit libraries?

No, everything on these boxes runs 64-bit.  The only thing that's been a
problem so far is tools and utilities from the vendor - Dell.

[* at least the damage caused by rm, fdisk, mkfs and cat is somewhat
restricted without root privileges]


-Ronan