Unable to monitor PERC 5i with CRUX Linux

[Tal Cohen]

Hi,

 

I'm new to this group, so please forgive me if this has already been asked.
I just purchased a PowerEdge 2950 with a PERC 5i RAID controller. The system
is running CRUX 2.3 (a Linux distro) with a 2.6.20.3 kernel.

 

The kernel can see the drives, and I am able work with /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
(the logical drives under the RAID controller) right of the Crux 2.3 CD :)

 

Here is the problem that I currently have: I want to monitor the health of
the RAID arrays. After booting the system, I removed one of the drives from
the Array. I was expecting to see an entry in /var/log/messages.

 

The RAID controller handled the loss of a physical drive correctly (the
logical drive was still accessible), but no messages were logged in
/var/log/*. 

 

I then rebooted. When the system initiated the RAID controller, the
controller stated that the logical drive has been degraded. This is what I
expected to see...but that same message does not appear in dmesg or
/var/log*.

 

I then replaced the drive and the RAID control re-synchronized the drives
correctly.

 

I also retried this after adding 

 

*.*        /var/log/all 

 

to /etc/syslogd.conf and after changing the log lever of klogd to 1.

 

So, my question is: How can I get messages from the RAID controller that
there is a drive failure in the RAID system?

 

Thanks,

 

Tal

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