[CentOS] Hardware raid health?

2014-08-25 Thread Les Mikesell
I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have both drives go bad. With local machines I probably would have caught it from the drive light before the 2nd one died... What is the state of the art in linux software monitoring for this? Long ago when that box was set up I

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid health?

2014-08-25 Thread Digimer
On 25/08/14 04:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have both drives go bad. With local machines I probably would have caught it from the drive light before the 2nd one died... What is the state of the art in linux software monitoring for

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid health?

2014-08-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:03 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Hardware raid health? I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid health?

2014-08-25 Thread Digimer
On 25/08/14 04:11 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 16:03 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Hardware raid health? I just had an IBM

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid health?

2014-08-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 8/25/2014 1:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have both drives go bad. With local machines I probably would have caught it from the drive light before the 2nd one died... What is the state of the art in linux software monitoring for

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid health?

2014-08-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Hardware raid health? I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have both drives go bad. With local machines I probably would have caught it from the drive light before the 2nd one died... What is the state of the art in linux

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid health?

2014-08-25 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-08-25, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: IF megacli64 works for this raid controller, then I tweaked some python scripts I found online and use these two scripts.. these live in /root/bin as they are only for root's use. They can probably go anywhere, since a normal user