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

[Ronan Mullally]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:

> That's a correct assesment of our support for 64-bit Oses.

For "unsupported" meanings of "support" ;-|

> As for opensourcing our management tools I'm afraid that portions of
> those are the IP of our Vendors and are disclossed to us under NDA, our
> hands are as tied as yours are. And there really are some bad things
> that non-root level users could do if they had access to some of the
> source code in the RAID management libraries.

I'm trying to think how an end-user, without write permission to the
relevant /{dev,proc,sys} files could do any damage.

If the RAID controller/library/driver is that badly broken it should be
fixed, not hidden.  If that's not possible then Dell should really be
looking for another vendor.

Consider this some grass-roots customer feedback looking for real 64 bit
support and open-sourced management tools.


-Ronan