MD1000/perc5e monitoring?

[Nataraj]

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 07:38 -0500, Stephan Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a PowerEdge SC1435 with a perc5e card connected to
> two MD1000 enclosures.  What is the best way to monitor the
> RAID card?  I was thinking of using OMSA 5.4 but when I try
> to install the RPMs I get the error message "This RPM is not
> supported on this system (sysid=01EB)".


There are both GUI and command line based management packages available
from the LSI logic web site.  The trick is to figure out which LSI logic
model has the same interface as your Dell controller.  I chose the
command line interface because it will let me write a simple shell
script to notify via email.

I will probably save the output from the command line program to a file
and then periodically diff it with the output from the latest run and
send email when ever anything changes in the controller.

You can also configure the controller with this utility.

The program I am using is MegaCli which I downloaded from here:
http://www.lsi.com/cm/License.do?url=/support/downloads/megaraid/miscellaneous/2.00.11_Linux_MegaCLI.zip&prodName=MegaRAID%20SAS%208880EM2&subType=Miscellaneous&locale=EN

I found a few documents that don't seem to be specific for the version
of the program that I downloaded, but were useful to know what commands
can be sent to the controller.  One document was at:
http://www.lsi.com/files/docs/techdocs/storage_stand_prod/sas/mr_sas_sw_ug.pdf

Here are a few of the controller status commands that I was able to run:
/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -LdPdInfo -aAll
/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -CfgDsply -aALL

 /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -LdInfo -Lall -aALL

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL

Battery backup status
 /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL

The state will change from optimal to degraded when a disk drops out of
the array.  I verified this by pulling a disk and was able to reinsert
it and rebuild the array.

All I did was install the RPM under CentOS 5.2 and it worked
immediately.  If it doesn't work for you, you might try the downloads
for the various other LSI controllers.

Nataraj