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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: Tools for Hardware Raid?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:27:12 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:33:53AM -0500, Rick Bragg wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Since my latest disaster was caused be me not monitoring raid disks, I
>was wondering about tools for monitoring hardware based raid systems?
>
>I have a Dell 1900 with a perc5 raid controller
>
># lspci
>02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5

actually this should be a rebranded LSI megaraid
you can use the megacli tool (www.lsi.com) to monitor the array status.
i use a nagios plugin around it
L.

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