** Description changed: Please update ledmon in Bionic to the latest upstream version 0.90. + 0.90 is necessary as the updates to ledmon enable monitoring of Intel + VROC[1] (Virtual Raid on CPU) and RSTe[2] (Rapid Storage Technologies + enterprise) by enabling the use of the drive LEDs to indicate array + state (degraded, disk issues, etc). + Currently, ledmon in Bionic is version 0.79-2. This is pulled from - Debian[1] however the debian package is grossly out of date and the + Debian[3] however the debian package is grossly out of date and the Debian maintainer has been radio silent since last year. Attempts to contact him to get the Debian package updated have gone unanswered for several months. The Debian package we normally pull from has several issues: 1: It appears to have been abandoned by the Debian Maintainer 2: It is several versions out of date by now (current upstream is 0.90, Debian is still at 0.79) - 3: The Debian package is pulling from a deprecated upstream source (sourceforge[2]) the upstream was changed to Github[3] some time ago. - 4: Intel even went and updated the deprecated sourceforge repo in the hopes that Debian would update, but Debian is still at 0.79. + 3: The Debian package is pulling from a deprecated upstream source (sourceforge[4]) the upstream was changed to Github[5] some time ago. + 4: Intel even went and updated the deprecated sourceforge repo in the hopes that Debian would update, but Debian is still at 0.79. - This FFE is necessary as the updates to ledmon upstream enable - monitoring of Intel VROC[4] (Virtual Raid on CPU) and RSTe[5] (Rapid - Storage Technologies enterprise) by enabling the use of the drive LEDs - to indicate array state (degraded, disk issues, etc). + Also, a test build is available here: + ppa:bladernr/final-builds - [1] https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=ledmon - [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ledmon/ - [3] https://github.com/intel/ledmon - [4] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000024498/memory-and-storage/ssd-software.html - [5] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/54985/memory-and-storage/ssd-software/intel-rapid-storage-technology-enterprise-intel-rste.html + [1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000024498/memory-and-storage/ssd-software.html + [2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/54985/memory-and-storage/ssd-software/intel-rapid-storage-technology-enterprise-intel-rste.html + [3] https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=ledmon + [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ledmon/ + [5] https://github.com/intel/ledmon
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