Monitor drives on PERC 5/i

[Adam Williams]

Right, I know.  I'm jut looking at all my monitoring options for when 
disks fail.  Right now I have a shell script cron'd to run megacli or 
megarc (depending on the server) and grep for errors and email me if 
there are any.  but I know with OMSA and its snmp agent I can set up 
nagios to montor, but I've never set up snmp or nagios so need to read 
the documents on that.  right now my only other option is to check the 
storage tab on OMSA's web interface daily, and on 12 servers or so that 
gets old after a while.

So LSI's Storage Manager for Linux only works on their SAS chipsets, 
which just so happens that dells uses on the PERC5/i and 6/i, but does 
not officially recommend using LSI's utility on dell PERC cards, right I 
understand that.

Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com wrote:
> You don't officially have any LSI model. Therefore this tool isn't
> officially supported by either Dell or LSI. It does seem to work, but no
> official testing has been done. 
>
> And no it won't monitor/manage PERC 3 or 4, CERC, or SAS 5 or 6 cards.
> The only way to get comprehensive monitoring of all your cards with one
> package is to use OMSA.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Adam Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:51 AM
> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: Monitor drives on PERC 5/i
>
> Frank Warnke wrote:
>   
>> For the times that I do not install OMSA, I use LSI's MegaRAID Storage
>> Manager for Linux.  (http://www.lsilogic.com)
>>
>> I have used it on several Dell PowerEdge 1900's and 2900's with the
>>     
> PERC 5/i.
>   
>> Once it is running, go to;
>>
>>    Tools => Configure => Monitor Configurator
>>
>> and set up which alerts should send e-mail.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> Does Storage Manager support Ultra320 (PERC4/di) cards or just SAS cards
>
> only?  looking at 
> http://www.lsi.com/support/downloads/megaraid/miscellaneous/linux/MSM_Li
> nux_2.35-01.txt 
> it just says what model numbers it supports, and commands like lspci 
> doesn't tel me what model number I have.  How can I find that out?
>
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