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

[Nicola_Worthington at McAfee.com]

Ditto! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Aaron
> Sent: 03 November 2006 01:32
> To: Brian A. Seklecki; linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: Dell PERC 5/i mfi status? (nagios plugin)
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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