Protecting the PERC configuration from the bewildered.

CCL clarsson at yakabod.com
Thu Nov 29 14:06:12 CST 2007


Let's assume that I have a 2950 server and that I have configured the three
disks in to be RAID-5 using the PERC 5i interface, the one that comes up on
boot that you have to press Ctrl-R to get into.  I now have the
configuration set just the way I want it.  I have installed the operating
systems and software and, in general, have sunk a few hours into this.  I am
now going to ship the server to a remote office, where the son of the
company owner, who "knows a little something about computers", is.  I have
already set the BIOS password so that he can't enable PXE boot or the CD-ROM
drive, but I haven't found a way to keep said person out of the RAID
config.  So the question is this, Is there a way to protect the RAID config
from the prying eyes of the bewildered, so that they can't go in saying, "We
could get 50% more disk space if this were setup RAID-0."  Hopefully, I am
just missing that magical menu choice for set password.

TIA.
C
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