I have four HP NetServer LPr PII/450 servers. Two of them have HP NetRaid 1si hardware raid cards (the others have NetRaid-1 cards).
I've been told that if anything goes wrong with the drives that the board has a really loud buzzer and will change the colour of the drive LED to indicate which drive is failing. However, I'd either have to swap the drive blind (its hot-swap) or shutdown to run the bios config to see what's happening. I'd like to be able to get an email telling me that there's a problem (in case I'm not within earshot of the server), or perhaps get a wall message; similar to mdadm tools for software raid. None of the raid packages in Etch seem to work with this card. None of the google links seem current (i.e. there used to be a couple of programs available, but no-longer). I see that the info I need is presented in /proc/megaraid/hba1/diskdrives-ch0 Channel: 0 Id: 0 State: Online. Vendor: HP Model: 36.4GB C 80-D94N Rev: D94N Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Channel: 0 Id: 1 State: Online. Vendor: HP Model: 36.4GB C 80-D94N Rev: D94N Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 and /proc/megaraid/hba1/raiddrives-0-9 Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal Span depth: 1, RAID level: 1, Stripe size: 64, Row size: 2 Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write thru, Cache Policy: Cached IO Logical drive: 1:, state: optimal Span depth: 0, RAID level: 0, Stripe size:128, Row size: 0 Read Policy: No read ahead, Write Policy: Write thru, Cache Policy: Cached IO ---------- Before I go ahead and reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a reference for a program that can monitor the drives (real and virtual) and send an alert if a problem develops? Or, Is there a similar program that works well which I could alter to read these files? Note, I'm not a C or perl programmer, so something written in those languages wouldn't help me much. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org