Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 07:03:01AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, and keeps the Linux disk- ses slot mapping up-to-date. i'm amazed this doesn't exist. isn't this a really common problem

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
/me ducks. - Original Message - From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-17 Thread Christopher Chan
OpenIndiana has all that builtin... /me ducks. - Original Message - From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: ie. you

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: OpenIndiana has all that builtin... /me ducks. - Original Message - Yes, and so does many commercial NAS appliances that run on Linux - but do you think they'll tell us how they got it working?

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. There's no daemon currently in Linux responsible for monitoring disk status and lighting up SES LEDs accordingly.. yikes. thats pretty amateur. I thought Linux was better than that. I've found some man

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. There's no daemon currently in Linux

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:19:17AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. There's no daemon currently in Linux responsible for monitoring disk status and lighting up SES LEDs accordingly.. yikes. thats pretty

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, and keeps the Linux disk- ses slot mapping up-to-date. i'm amazed this doesn't exist. isn't this a really common problem with storage arrays? -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:03 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, and keeps the Linux disk-  ses slot mapping up-to-date. i'm amazed this doesn't exist.   isn't this a really common

[CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-15 Thread John R Pierce
So I'm curious how SAS JBOD arrays and linux MDraid as implemented in CentOS6, and SES (SCSI/SAS Enclosure Services) backplane controllers 'get along' and how much configuration is needed to get the warning lights to work properly. scenario: whitebox server with a SAS backplane or two, daisy

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:19:22AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: So I'm curious how SAS JBOD arrays and linux MDraid as implemented in CentOS6, and SES (SCSI/SAS Enclosure Services) backplane controllers 'get along' and how much configuration is needed to get the warning lights to work

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. Maybe, I presume its vendor specific but if they appear to linux in sys, maybe a solution like the first link suggests? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560432 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/3/193