monitoring SAS drives on a PE2950?

[Ryan Langseth]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Adam Williams wrote:

> Is there a way to monitor the drives on a PE2950 for failure?  I know
> there is OMSA, but I have to check the web interface daily.  is there a
> way to have a script check the drives daily and email me if one fails?
>

I have been trying to figure this out on our linux systems too, I really 
don't want to install OMSA to do it.  there are nagios plugins to monitor 
megaraid controllers. On our FreeBSD systems, drive failures are logged by 
the kernel, on CentOS, there are no log messages when a disk fails.


Ryan