Re: SmartArray monitoring

[Howard Johnson <merlin mwob org uk>]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:38 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> I've recently installed RHEL 4 on a Compaq DL360 with an embedded
> SmartArraycontroller.  In the last day or so (I don't know exactly
> when), one of my mirrored drives died.  Unfortunately I received no
> notification other than the idiot light on the front of the drive.
> 
> What tools are available (and actually work well) to monitor the status
> of the drives and notify us when one dies?  I believe that a few people
> have complained about some of the HP tools in the past, but I obviously
> need something that works...

I've been using a program called array-info[1]. It's a command line app,
works on older IDA-type (DL-series G1s) and the current CCISS-type (DL-
series G2 and newer) Compaq/HP controllers. You'll want to apply a bunch
of patches[2] that fix a few bugs in the latest (several years old)
release.

The only problem is that compiling it requires some header files from
the cpqarray and cciss drivers that are only in the kernel source, not
the kernel-devel package (the headers define internal stuff that
shouldn't really be used outside the driver, I think). So either you
need an unpacked copy of the kernel source to compile against, or to
provide those header files on their own.

Hope that helps.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/array-info
[2] http://members.aon.at/hstraub/linux/array-info/