Re: How to remotely check an Adaptec 2100S RAID array status under FreeBSD 5.2.1?

2006-08-15 Thread Olaf Greve

Hi Chad,

there is a freebsd program that can be used to report on and manage your 
raid on a 2100s.  Google frebsd and adaptec 2100s


Thanks a lot!
So indeed this is done by installing some programs for it, and they do 
exist for FreeBSD as well. :)


Alrighty, tnx a lot, when rebuilding the RAID array I may also make use 
of the situation to upgrade to FBSD 6 (as 5.2.1 is somewhat dated now, 
and I've been wanting to give FBSD 6 a go for a while now), so something 
good comes out of it after all. ;)


Cheers!
Olafo
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Re: How to remotely check an Adaptec 2100S RAID array status under FreeBSD 5.2.1?

2006-08-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
There is an adaptec raiodctl package (I think that is the name).   I  
recently retired my last 2100s so I no longer can go check it.   
However, there is a freebsd program that can be used to report on and  
manage your raid on a 2100s.  Google frebsd and adaptec 2100s


Besides being able to run it at will, I also had a cron job that  
would run it periodically and email me the results.  (I also do that  
with my amr devices and my aac devices with the appropriate raid  
management programs).



Chad

On Aug 14, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Olaf Greve wrote:


Hi all,

I hope someone can answer the following question for me (which may  
be trivial).


In my fall-back server I use an Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID controller,  
with two (identical) drives attached to it. This morning I recieved  
the dreaded phonecall (from the server farm) that that machine is  
emitting a loud beep,which I remember to be the RAID controller's  
alarm in case a drive has failed.


Now, the above is clear and all, and I will replace the broken  
drive asap, so no question there.


However, I am about to go on a 3 week holiday to South America, and  
as I'll then be on an entirely different continent, I was wondering  
if there are any ways to remotely check the status of hardware RAID  
arrays. :D


In this case I tried dmesg (and checking the /var/log/messages  
file) and I couldn't find a single error message from the RAID  
controller (which can be deemed 'desirable' behaviour, as one of  
the two drives still works fine).


Are there any software tools for FreeBSD that can be used to check  
this remotely from an SSH terminal (no X), or better yet, is there  
support in FreeBSD itself for checking the status of hardware RAID  
arrays?


Tnx in advance, and cheers!
Olafo

PS: I am wondering about the same question for the 3ware 9600 SATA  
RAID controller too. It would be great to be able to monitor that  
remotely as well.

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