LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

[J. Epperson]

On Fri, February 1, 2008 10:58, Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> My recommendation? OMSA it works for PERC 3/4/5/6, CERC, and SAS 5/6. No
> other tool does that.
>

Fine if you need a tool that does all that OMSA does, like a Swiss Army
Knife.  Kind of bloated if all you are after is command-line status
checking.  The mptfusion/mptsas CLI tool was mpt-status through the SAS
5/iR, bet it also works with 6/iR.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Saou
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:39 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200
>
> Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote :
>
>> MegaCLI doesn't support the SAS iR controllers.
>
> What is the right command line tool for those, then? My Dell sales guy
> managed to convince me that for a simple 2 disk RAID-1 in some PE1950
> III, I would be fine using the SAS 6/iR instead of choosing a PERC...
> but for the RAID status monitoring, I need to find the right tool and
> create yet another script for the monitoring tool I use :-(
>