Raid Failure Notification

Matthew Galgoci mgalgoci at redhat.com
Wed Feb 16 00:50:44 UTC 2005


> I'm setting up a new server with ES 3 which will go into a data-center. 
> It has an adaptec raid controller with a hotplug raid 5 array attached. 
> I've tested the failure mode and am happy with the results. I need to 
> configure something so that root gets an email when a drive fails. It's 
> using the dpt_i2o driver and I've heard that dptutils is the package 
> written by adaptec to manage the array. Is dptutils hidden somewhere in 
> RH 3 or is it missing. Is there another way to configure notification? 
> Is there a proper way to get this dptutils if they are not in RH?

dptutils is not a package provided by Red Hat. You'll need to get it from 
adaptec.

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Matthew Galgoci
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