Re: monitor IBM serveraid
> From: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: monitor IBM serveraid
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 13:19
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:55:15 +0000,
> Glyn Astill wrote:
>
> >> http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins
> >>
> >> (side note, I'm also using "aacraid" module and no
> monitoring possible
> >> for my raid1 and raid5 inside OS, just BIOS, at
> least while using
> >> aacraid
> >> module which included in kernel).
> >>
> >> I would contact IBM and tell them about your
> options. They provide
> >> drivers for RedHat and SLES linux distributions,
> so they can give you
> >> updated and accurate advice on this.
> >>
> >>
> > We use adaptec 5805 controllers in our servers with
> the debian aacraid
> > kernel module, and adaptec provide a "storage manager"
> tool as an rpm
> > package (perhaps IBM provide something similar, or
> perhaps the adaptec
> > tool would be fine for you if it's a rebranded
> card). I just converted
> > the rpm with alien and installed the storage manager.
>
> Last time I installed ASM it required the use of aacraid
> driver from
> Adaptec and so to be compiled on every kernel update.
>
> I finally ditched and got the stock "aacraid" module
> provided by the
> kernel. This was for my 2020SA sata raid controllers.
>
> > With that I can fire up storeman and use the adaptec
> storace manager
> > remotely, or use the embedded "chkconfig" tool to
> check the status of my
> > raid arrays.
> >
> > I use a nagios script to call the "chkconfig" tool for
> monitoring - this
> > has been working well for the past couple of years.
>
> IIRC, ASM also allowed web monitoring.
>
> But it's a pity these raid controllers do not have CLI
> based tools
> integrated in the OS for manaing raid status without the
> needing of
> having to drop the kernel module.
>
>
Here we're still using the stock kernel module, I just pulled out the CLI tools and the storman agent and they work fine with it. So no need to drop the kernel module.
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