monitoring HP NetRaid-1si hardware raid card
I have four HP NetServer LPr PII/450 servers. Two of them have HP
NetRaid 1si hardware raid cards (the others have NetRaid-1 cards).
I've been told that if anything goes wrong with the drives that the
board has a really loud buzzer and will change the colour of the drive
LED to indicate which drive is failing. However, I'd either have to
swap the drive blind (its hot-swap) or shutdown to run the bios config
to see what's happening.
I'd like to be able to get an email telling me that there's a problem
(in case I'm not within earshot of the server), or perhaps get a wall
message; similar to mdadm tools for software raid.
None of the raid packages in Etch seem to work with this card. None of
the google links seem current (i.e. there used to be a couple of
programs available, but no-longer).
I see that the info I need is presented in
/proc/megaraid/hba1/diskdrives-ch0
Channel: 0 Id: 0 State: Online.
Vendor: HP Model: 36.4GB C 80-D94N Rev: D94N
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Channel: 0 Id: 1 State: Online.
Vendor: HP Model: 36.4GB C 80-D94N Rev: D94N
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
and
/proc/megaraid/hba1/raiddrives-0-9
Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
Span depth: 1, RAID level: 1, Stripe size: 64, Row size: 2
Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write thru, Cache Policy: Cached IO
Logical drive: 1:, state: optimal
Span depth: 0, RAID level: 0, Stripe size:128, Row size: 0
Read Policy: No read ahead, Write Policy: Write thru, Cache Policy: Cached IO
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Before I go ahead and reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a reference
for a program that can monitor the drives (real and virtual) and send an
alert if a problem develops?
Or,
Is there a similar program that works well which I could alter to read
these files? Note, I'm not a C or perl programmer, so something written
in those languages wouldn't help me much.
Thanks,
Doug.
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