>>> Porting the package properly would work better. >> I'm not sure I follow. Could you explain? > A package that monitors the ECKD hardware and produces alerts, in a > similar manner to what the smartmon tools do, would work better. I doubt > that the ECKD data could be translated to SMART data without loss of > information.
On the other hand, if you invent something new, you lose all the benefits of the other goodies that build on top of smartmon. The package has support for at least 3 major families of disk monitoring commands already, so teaching it one more new one would be a much less complex undertaking. It already understands ATA, SATA, and SCSI. CCW isn't all that conceptually different from SCSI (don't say it -- the ideas are similar, I know the commands and command structures are different). There are also a fair number of SMART command responses that pass a "blob" of device-specific data back, so you could probably stick the more complex ERP data in those payloads. But, someday when I have free time. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
