> On Aug 12, 2022, at 12:31, Doug Ambrisko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Dan Mahoney wrote:
> |
> | > On Aug 8, 2022, at 16:45, Doug Ambrisko <[email protected]> wrote:
> | >
> | > On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 04:10:10PM -0400, Dan Mahoney wrote:
> | > |
> | > |
> | > | > On Aug 8, 2022, at 15:57, Doug Ambrisko <[email protected]> wrote:
> | > | >
> | > | > On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 05:22:29PM +0300, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
> | > | > | 03.08.2022, 02:07, "Dan Mahoney" <[email protected]>:
> | > | > | Hey there all,
> | > | > | At the dayjob we have a fleet of Dell Poweredge servers that
> can use
> | > | > | either mptsas or mrsas -- if you use mptsas, you use mptutil
> (in
> | > | > | base) to check the state of the card.
> | > | > | If you use mrsas, you need megacli, which is only in ports,
> and the
> | > | > | port hasn't translated to pkg probably because of license
> | > | > | restrictions. ( _LICENSE_RESTRICTED = delete-package
> | > | > | delete-distfiles), but the license listed is just "megacli".
> | > | > | * We want to deploy a cron job to periodically check the raid
> status
> | > | > | (we're writing a wrapper, also having it check mfiutil, zpool,
> etc).
> | > | > | * We do not want to install and manage a whole ports tree on
> every
> | > | > | machine in our fleet, just to install a raid utlity.
> | > | > | Option A:
> | > | > | Make a local package somehow.
> | > | > | The port just downloads a static binary, there's nothing to
> build
> | > | > | here, but we want to do this the "right" way. Is there some
> way to
> | > | > | have pkg deploy a single local package for this that will, for
> | > | > | example, report the right package ownership, without moving
> every
> | > | > | other package to our poudriere install (we're just using base
> | > | > | packages, we keep poudriere around for testing in case we need
> to
> | > | > | hot-patch something).
> | > | > | For what it's worth, we use puppet for config management, so
> pushing
> | > | > | out the static binary is not the worst answer, but it also
> feels
> | > | > | "dirty".
> | > | > | Option B:
> | > | > | Figure out how to fix the license. I have no idea what this
> would
> | > | > | involve.
> | > | > | Option C:
> | > | > | Also, apparently MegaCLI is no longer maintained (replaced by
> | > | > | StorCLI), but there's no port for StorCLI, and...there are
> multiple
> | > | > | raid-card specific versions? Jeez.
> | > | > | Feels even more dirty.
> | > | > |
> [1]https://support.siliconmechanics.com/portal/en/kb/articles/storcl
> | > | > | i-for-freebsd-and-other-operating-systems
> | > | > | Ideas welcome?
> | > | > | -Dan Mahoney
> | > | >
> | > | > Although the path to get to StorCli goes through various cards the
> | > | > latest greatest seem to work on all earlier cards. It works on
> | > | > HBAs and not just RAID cards. At work I did a Linux/FreeBSD
> | > | > POC for FW management and found the FreeBSD version could flash the
> HBA
> | > | > and drive FW. I've moved to StorCli from MegaCli. I would suggest
> | > | > we drop the MegaCli port and move to StorCli.
> | > | >
> | > | > I have code to make mfiutil into mrsasutil and added the MFI ioctl
> | > | > handler to mrsas. I'm not sure how much value that has. I don't
> | > | > deal with supporting FreeBSD and RAID much anymore. If interested
> | > | > I could send patches.
> | > |
> | > | This feels like it should be in base, regardless. Just *something* to
> | > | query the raid status and health, even if it doesn't ring all the bells
> | > | of StorCLI.
> | > |
> | > | Right now, you can do this with the older mfi, but not the newer mrsas,
> | > | which performs better in some cases, which leaves an admin with a
> | > | dilemma: better reliability, or better manageability.
> | > |
> | > | I also feel like this could be added to a minor release (i.e. a
> | > | 12.3 --> 12.4 or a 13.0 --> 13.1), but obviously that decision is above
> me.
> | >
> | > This is based of -current. I haven't tested it recently:
> | > https://people.freebsd.org/~ambrisko/git.mrsas_support_in_mfiutil.patch
> | >
> | > Please give it a try. You will need a new kernel built and booted to
> | > provide the needed ioctl support. It should be close to committable.
> |
> | Doug,
> |
> | I'm trying this out on 12.x and 13.x just for funsies, but given the
> | release schedule, it's unlikely that there'll be a 12.4 or a 13.2 that
> | this would make it into. Regardless, I've opened a bug report to get
> | this added *somewhere* which may cause other people to try it out and test.
>
> I'd have to put in -current first then look at MFC later on. If looks
> good for you then I'll put it up for review. I just don't use this
> stuff day to day anymore.
Yeah, most of our dayjob work is running critical DNS infrastructure, so
there's not a lot of -current there, but I can get permission to play with it
on a spare system.
-Dan
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug A.
