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

[Rob Munsch]

David Hubbard wrote:

>From: Sean Dilda
>  
>
>>Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
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>>>That's a correct assesment of our support for 64-bit Oses. 
>>>      
>>>
Sooo, instead of 'we support 64 bit OSes,' why not state plainly 'we 
like redhat.' 
"Arbitrary" linuxes..? come on...

>>
>>>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.
>>>      
>>>
woah woah woah hey what??!

>>If a non-root user can do bad things, then shouldn't the 
>>driver be fixed to prevent that?  Along those same lines, 
>>wouldn't malicious users be able to figure out how to do the 
>>'bad things' if they just read through the driver code?
>>
How is it that we can cycle through dell's "embracing" the opensource 
community and redhat's growing "prominence(tm)", and have to come full 
circle back to explaining first principles of open source?

This is deeply disappointing, and one large eyeroll.  It's really 
terrible when we have to boggle over the same stuff Microsoft pretends 
not to get.  A sign saying "door should be locked, please don't come in" 
is no replacement for a deadbolt.

Now there is no oversight and no incentive for these closed drivers to 
be fixed, and no way for us to tell if they are.
hence, they are not trustable.
hence, i cannot use them.

Ironically, if these secretive coders of your vendors had thought to 
join FOSS properly.. they'd have had a great many such issues fixed for 
them by now, for free, by people who'd do it just because they believe 
it should be done.
And the code would be trustable.  And it would be usable.

>That's the same reason we've never installed the management tools on any of our servers; 
>
and i can certainly see why.  Very disappointing; with OMSA 5.0 i was 
hoping to make use of these tools on our servers, but i can safely 
abandon that project now and will be pursuing a completely open-source 
hardware monitoring solution.

I hope sincerely that these vendors abandon their fear of the light and 
understand how much it's in their own interests to stop concealing 
flaws.  "You can't see this because it might be broken horribly" is not 
the ideal selling point  o_O

-- 
Rob Munsch
Solutions For Progress IT
www.solutionsforprogress.com