Bug#403055: ITP: array-info -- command line HP (Compaq) SmartArray status checker

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Raphaël Pinson]
> Sorry Petter, I misswrote your name...

No problem. :)

> No. I'm setting a whole Debian mirror in my company, redoing the
> whole software deployment policy. I've got about 250 packages that
> differ from Debian to deal with one by one, and array-info is just
> one of them. I began to work on it this morning as I filed the ITP
> and uploaded to mentors this afternoon...

Right.  Good to see that you are trying to make the changes available
for all. :)

> We use the SmartArray CD provided by HP, i.e. we have to reboot on
> this windows-based CD to do it. It provides a lot of useful tools so
> it's good. If you know another way, I'm interested.

Right.  Yes, there is a better way, but I have only tested it on
RedHat Enterprise Linux.  HP provides a tool hpacucli capable of
updating the status.  It is only available in binary form as an RPM,
as far as I know.

> arrayprobe, which is in Debian already, does it too, but it gives
> less infos and is not as nice to read. There are also some tools
> packaged in Debian that provide a daemon to watch the RAID status
> and some snmp extension to graph it, but we don't use it.

Yes, I've found the cpqarrayd package, but it only report the events,
and make it hard to detect if the problem reported is still there or
not, so I prefer a tool where I can query the status.

> arrayprobe is easy to use as it detects the RAID controllers without
> having to give the device as an option, but it displays less
> infos. The most useful infos array-info displays is the recovery
> status percentage.

Perhaps the RAID controller detection code should be lifted from
arrayprobe and put into array-info? :)

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen