Monitoring hardware raid

Monitoring hardware raid

[Mauricio Tavares]

	I have here a full tower full of drives that is a self-standing
hardware raid which is connected to a redhat 9 box through a scsi cable.
  Without knowing much more (I am trying to learn more about it like
what it is up to), is there a raid monitoring package for linux I can
use to find out what is on its mind? Clicking the buttons besides the
LCD on the raid box is just not me. And, as I implied, unfortunately I
do not know much about that raid (like manufacturer, cards used, and so
on) as of now. It is a bit of a black box... literally.

Re: Monitoring hardware raid

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 at 8:52am, Mauricio Tavares wrote

> 	I have here a full tower full of drives that is a self-standing
> hardware raid which is connected to a redhat 9 box through a scsi cable.
> Without knowing much more (I am trying to learn more about it like
> what it is up to), is there a raid monitoring package for linux I can
> use to find out what is on its mind? Clicking the buttons besides the
> LCD on the raid box is just not me. And, as I implied, unfortunately I
> do not know much about that raid (like manufacturer, cards used, and so
> on) as of now. It is a bit of a black box... literally.

Generally those sorts of boxes have a serial port you can talk to to get 
status and the like.  They may also have an out-of-band ethernet port for 
the same thing.

All of this is very manufacturer dependent though, *and* has nothing 
whatsoever to do with linux-raid...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

Re: Monitoring hardware raid

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Mauricio Tavares wrote:

> 	I have here a full tower full of drives that is a self-standing
> hardware raid which is connected to a redhat 9 box through a scsi cable.

With hardware SCSI-attached RAID, odds are, if there are any monitoring 
utilities, they'll be proprietary to that hardware RAID device, so you'll 
need to see if the manufacturer has tools for Linux, or search the net and 
see if any 3rd party has figured out how to talk to the device.

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