On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Rick Bragg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a used PowerEdge 1900 with a perc 5 controller.  I am
> running Ubuntu LTS 8.04 on it, and I'm wondering if there are any
> software tools that I can use to monitor and manage the array?  I have
> it set up as RAID 10.  My controler card is:
>
> # lspci
> 02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5
>
> It is in a remote location, so command line tools would be great.  I
> don't run any gnome or windowing at all.  Even if I have to do it by
> hand would be fine...
>
> Thanks!
> Rick
>
>
> For monitoring of the RAID arrays on our PERC 5 controllers, we have our
Nagios server check the status with this plugin:

http://www.monitoringexchange.org/inventory/Check-Plugins/Hardware/Devices/RAID-Controller/check_megaraid_sas

It doesn't do much in the way of managing it (we usually use MegaCli for
that if we can, but we pretty much never change the configuration once
things are going), but it is great way to know if all the drives in the
array are okay.  Nagios is some what of a pain to initially setup, but once
you have it going, it is amazingly helpful.
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