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

[Ronan Mullally]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, John Hodrien wrote:

> > 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.
>
> That's an evasive non-answer.  Why can't you install the necessary 32bit
> libraries?

I don't want to.

The more verbose answer is that I'm loathe to install anything I don't
have the source code for.  Particularly something that'll require root
priviliges as diagnostic tools would.  I'm more than a little peeved
that Dell won't release the source code for these tools.

A minor sub-answer is that by running a 64-bit only system I make life a
little bit tougher for anybody that might manage to gain access and
attempt privilege escalation by using uploaded binaries, which are most
likely going to be 32-bit.  Hardly a massive security benefit (and one
that'll diminish with time), but every little bit helps.


-Ronan.