monitoring means for IBM ServeRAID driver?

monitoring means for IBM ServeRAID driver?

[mjstumpf]

Didn't see anything in the archives.

Is there some "trivial" means ("cat /proc/mdstat" or its equivalent in
mdadm) of monitoring the health of a raid constructed via IBM ServeRAID? 
The RAID appears to linux as a opaque, very large scsi device.

"cat /proc/scsi/ips/1" only shows me uninteresting info.. firmware level,
etc.  Everything is working fine right now, but I have a bad feeling that
a drive could die & I won't even know it.

I've seen reference to some sort of RAS / device driver hardening on the
IBM OSS website, but no details.. just patch files.

Thanks in advance,
Michael Stumpf

Re: monitoring means for IBM ServeRAID driver?

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2003-06-30T12:15:08,
   mjstumpf <mjstumpf@cotse.net> said:

> Is there some "trivial" means ("cat /proc/mdstat" or its equivalent in
> mdadm) of monitoring the health of a raid constructed via IBM ServeRAID? 
> The RAID appears to linux as a opaque, very large scsi device.

Maybe this information tidbit can help you:

#       As of this writing (5/22/2003) this version of the software is not
#       yet available.  For everything but the ipssend command, you can
#       grab the ISO image here:
#
#               ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/bp_server/01r0539.iso
#
#       For the time being, you will need to grab a "correct" version of
#       the ipssend command here:
#               http://linux-ha.org/download/ipssend.gz

(It's from a heartbeat resource script controlling ServeRAID failover)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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