Solution: Poweredge SC1435 HOWTO Monitor RAID

[Fletcher Cocquyt]

Fletcher Cocquyt <fcocquyt <at> stanford.edu> writes:

> 
> Since OM is not supported on the SC1435, what is the recommended way to monitor
> the health of the RAID on a Poweredge SC1435 running Linux (actually VMWare ESX
> 3.0.2)
> 
> (We use OpenManage for this on our non SC ESX servers)


I developed a bigbrother raid monitoring module based on the mpt-status someone
posted about earlier this year:

http://www.drugphish.ch/~ratz/mpt-status/

This util works a lot like the raidctl in Solaris:

[root at esx-04 fcocquyt]# /usr/sbin/mpt-status                                   
                                                        
ioc0 vol_id 0 type IM, 2 phy, 698 GB, state DEGRADED, flags ENABLED
RESYNC_IN_PROGRESS
ioc0 phy 1 scsi_id 32 ATA      ST3750640NS      E   , 698 GB, state ONLINE,
flags NONE
ioc0 phy 0 scsi_id 1 ATA      ST3750640NS      E   , 698 GB, state ONLINE, flags
OUT_OF_SYNC

I pulled a drive to test the BB module and the resyncing status is reported
properly once its replaced

thanks