FAQ

[Tino Schwarze]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:09:40PM -0400, David Miller wrote:

> Is there a faq for this list?  I didn't see anything in the subscription 
> email.  Pointers welcome.
> 
> If there isn't a faq, or it somehow isn't listed, is there a fairly 
> straightforward way to monitor array status on PERC 3/4/5 controllers on 
> debian and suse?  Megactl doesn't cut it; once there's an error there's 
> no apparent way to reset things without rebooting the system.  MegaCLI 
> sounds horribly complex for detecting that a drive died and it's not at 
> all obvious which download matches up with which Dell PERC.  MSM is a 
> graphical front end to MegaCLI that doesn't help for simple (nagios) 
> monitoring.

Your best bet would be installing OMSA together with the
srvadmin-storage package. That will give you a unified interface to all
of these controllers.

> The descriptions of OMS I've seen online sound like it's pretty much 
> RedHat specific and gross overkill for a simple monitoring application.

It's overkill for just monitoring your RAID. But you'll get extensive
hardware monitoring (temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, power supply
states) almost for free. Plus some management possibilites.

I installed OMSA on several SuSE machines (oldest install is on a SuSE
9.0 box with quite old OMSA which required hacking, newest is on SuSE 10.3
with latest OMSA 5.4 which installed straight from Dell's repositories
at http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/ )

HTH,

Tino.

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