> From: Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: monitor IBM serveraid > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 12:13 > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:44:19 +0100, > mourik jan c heupink wrote: > > > Is there an easy way on debian to monitor IBM > ServeRAID hardware for > > failed disks? Specifically: the xSeries 3650, > ServeRAID 8k RAID10. > > > > Configuring software raid to send an notification > email is easy enough, > > but that's not why we bought the nice IBM hardware > raid... > > If this information is true: > > http://serverfault.com/questions/58480/serveraid-8-k-linux-kernel-support-preferred-distribution > > And your raid controller is using "aacraid" module, I think > you are stuck :- > ( > > http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins > > (side note, I'm also using "aacraid" module and no > monitoring possible > for my raid1 and raid5 inside OS, just BIOS, at least while > using aacraid > module which included in kernel). > > I would contact IBM and tell them about your options. They > provide > drivers for RedHat and SLES linux distributions, so they > can give you > updated and accurate advice on this. >
We use adaptec 5805 controllers in our servers with the debian aacraid kernel module, and adaptec provide a "storage manager" tool as an rpm package (perhaps IBM provide something similar, or perhaps the adaptec tool would be fine for you if it's a rebranded card). I just converted the rpm with alien and installed the storage manager. With that I can fire up storeman and use the adaptec storace manager remotely, or use the embedded "chkconfig" tool to check the status of my raid arrays. I use a nagios script to call the "chkconfig" tool for monitoring - this has been working well for the past couple of years. Glyn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/814344.56651...@web26005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
