From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
Subject: Re: Tools for Hardware Raid?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:44:22 +0100
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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.