Dell PERC 5/i mfi status? (nagios plugin)

[Aaron]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:12:32 -0500 (EST)
  "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> 
wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Bret Esquivel wrote:
> 
>> Mathieu,
>> 
>> I was actually asking if there is an "amrstat" type 
>>utility that I can check
>> the array status while in production. Thanks for the 
>>advice on 6-STABLE, I
> 
> Well, it was sysutils/megarc for PERC/4.  On PERC/5 
>mfi(1), it's whatever we 
> decide to call it.
> 
> Dell is shipping a CLI with OMSA or whatever.  We may 
>have to hack on the 
> kernel interface:
> 
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-October/027645.html
> 
> We've got the      /dev/mfi?	 management interface 
>already, just need to 
> port the Linux code over.
> 
> I'm really starting to think OpenBSD will beat FreeBSD 
>to the game with the 
> bio(4) RAID management hardware abstraction subsystem:
> 


Brian,

I would be very interested in testing this NRPE plugin.  I 
have a few hundred Dell servers (1850/2850/2650 and soon 
to be 2950) that I wish to monitor the array status from 
nagios and will not be installing the dell monitoring 
software packages.

If this plugin works on RHEL4AS/CentOS4; then I will be a 
good test victim as this would save me from duplicating 
efforts. :-)


--Aarön