RAID Monitoring

[Jim Nelson]

Darren.Terry at cox.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	I was wondering what you all use to monitor your RIAD arrays on
> PowerEdge servers? I have quite a lot of servers scattered around my
> network that have no monitoring (other than physically looking). This
> just isn't cutting it. All of the servers are either running Redhat 9 or
> Fedora 7. They all use the PERC controller.
> 
> Darren Terry
> UNIX Administrator 
> Cox Communications
> Desk: 757.222.8984
> Cell: 757.395.9120
> 

It depends on the hardware - most recent PowerEdges use LSI-based RAID cards, 
and the megaCLI interface will work for them.  PERC/2 (IIRC) and CERC cards use 
the adaptec chipset, and there will be versions of the afacli program that, with 
a bit of kind-of-nasty scripting, can be used to monitor those older cards.

Jim