My servers run in a datacenter, 50km away from my office... if a led flash, if the speaker beep... I think I'll not see/hear it ...
My servers are monitored using nagios which has a plugin for software raid... so if one array goes down, I receive a mail/sms/call/... futher more, everything is on the same panel: raid, http servers, free disk space, ... I think it is better than any led flashing into the DC :-D A. On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 10:30 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > I thought that was what the flashing LEDs on the front of the server's > HDs were for (besides showing activity). Some I have seen also have an > LED near the power button to indicate HD problems. > > I guess if you are building your own boxen and not using enterprise > grade servers, this is not the case. > > Thanks, > Steve Totaro > > C F wrote: > > While hardware RAID tend to be more reliable, it is not always > > possible to properly monitor hardware raid in a linux system, unless > > you write your own code. > > Consider this: > > ~# cat /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [raid1] > > md0 : active raid1 sdb2[2](F) sda2[1] > > 76139968 blocks [2/1] [_U] > > > > unused devices: <none> > > > > The above is from an active system that one hdd failed. It would take > > way longer to find such a thing on a hardware raid. Unless it came > > with a program that emails me notification on such a failure. > > > > On 8/20/07, Vidura Senadeera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Dear All, > >> > >> I would like to get community's feedback with regard to RAID1 ( Software or > >> Hardware) implementations with asterisk. > >> > >> This is my setup > >> > >> Motherboard with SATA RAID1 support > >> CENT OS 4.4 > >> Asterisk 1.2.19 > >> Libpri/zaptel latest release > >> 2.8 Ghz Intel processor > >> 2 80 GB SATA Hard disks > >> 256 MB RAM > >> digium PRI/E1 card > >> > >> Following are the concerns I am having > >> > >> I'm planing to put this asterisk server in production enviorment which is > >> having E1 connection to the asterisk server, approximately > >> 20 con-current calls, Music on hold, voice mail boxes. > >> > >> 1. If I use Software RAID, what would be the impact to my deployment? ( > >> problems that I have to face with regard to the call flow ) > >> 2. If I use Hardware based RAID 1, what would be the impact to the system? > >> 3. According to your practical experiance what is the ideal solution among > >> both options? > >> > >> I will be highly appreciate your feedback on this regard. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thanks & Regards, > >> Vidura Senadeera, > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
