Hello,
I have been trying rather unsucessfully to find monitoring tools for the MegaRAID-based RAID cards that will run on Gentoo. Does anyone out there have one of these cards? If so, what are you using to monitor the status of the array.
The answer here can get complicated....
If you are running a new style megaraid card on a 2.6 kernel, use MegaMonitor.
If you are running on any megaraid on a 2.4 kernel w/ the old megaraid driver, array status is in /proc/megaraid or /proc/scsi.
If you are running on any megaraid on a newer 2.4 kernel w/ the new megaraid driver, I'm not sure what you use...probably the array mgr sw.
If you are running an old style megaraid on the the 2.6 kernel using old driver, I'm also not sure what you use - hopefully stuff shows up in /proc/megaraid.
The MegaMonitor and array manager software can be downloaded from the dell website.
Note that if you have a new style megaraid card w/ a new style management card in a recent dell server, the mgmt card will also send out
emails whenever a drive fails and the front server lcd should turn orange and display an alert message stating which drive has failed. The lights
on the impacted drive should also turn red.
Regards,
Matt
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