From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
To: Rick Bragg <lists@gmnet.net>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tools for Hardware Raid?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:44:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B38EE76.3000707@ziu.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262014433.25079.212.camel@vibe>
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
>
> It is set up as RAID 10
>
> I tried running smartctl on it, but that does not even work because the
> system sees the array as just one disk.
>
> I'm wondering how I can monitor the disks, etc...
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks
> Rick
>
Most recent version (5.39) of smartmontools allows monitoring disks behind
perc controllers - for example: smartctl -a -d megaraid,1 /dev/sda
I'm not using any perc at the moment, so no idea how well that works in
practice - probably worth checking out though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-28 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-28 15:33 Tools for Hardware Raid? Rick Bragg
2009-12-28 15:45 ` Drew
2009-12-29 0:39 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-12-29 14:52 ` Drew
2009-12-29 15:53 ` John Robinson
2009-12-28 17:44 ` Michal Soltys [this message]
2009-12-28 21:27 ` Luca Berra
2009-12-29 18:42 ` Andrea Dell'Amico
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