CLI Management and health check of Perc controllers on RHEL4without daemons or kernel mods.

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

The only piece of software which will be consistant across all these
controllers would be OMSA, however OMSA starts some daemons and inserts
kernel modules (GPL'ed so no tainting).

If you insist on CLI you'll need to go with the vendor utilities. AFACLI
for the PERC 3/Di and one of the LSI CLI utilities for the 3/DC and
4/Di.

You can get OMSA down to 3 pretty light weight daemons if you play with
it a bit. But if that isn't an option for some reason then you will have
to go with the vendor utilities.

Patrick Boyd
Dell Storage Software Engineer
(512)728-3182


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Aaron
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:59 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: CLI Management and health check of Perc controllers on
RHEL4without daemons or kernel mods.

I am looking for a list of the essential binaries/rpm's needed to view
the status of and build raid volumes within the various Perc cards.

My servers are 2650's, 1850's, 2850's and soon to be 2950's.  My
controllers are 3/Di, 3/DC and 4/Di.
  
Installing anything that starts a daemon, inserts kernel modules or in
any way taints the OS install or startup order will not be an option.
  
Is there a URL that identifies the software needed to perform these real
time functions on Dell Perc controllers?  Everything I have found on
Dell.com suggests installing management software that runs as a daemon.

I only need to manage the controller from the command line and also be
able to run a command to get a one time quick status of the volume(s)
health.
  
All of my servers are RHEL4 or CentOS4 on the latest kernel.


Thanks,

Aaron

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