determine hardware raid

[Berthold Cogel]

john maclean schrieb:
> Ah, that's handy to know! Anything similar for Dells?
> 

Yes..

Get the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator from the Dell Support
homepage or from the ftp site.

It's ftp://ftp.dell.com/sysman/.

Look for the OM_x.x.x_ManNode_A00.tar.gz packages. Create a directory
'dell' somewhere and unpack the tarball to this directory. Call
setup.sh. This will install the software to /opt/dell (with RPMs) and
start the services. One is the dsm_om_connsvc which delivers a web
interface on port 1311. This is a complete interface to the system
internals (monitoring, RAID, BIOS..).

But you can also manage and monitor your systems on the command line:
omreport system shows you details about temperature, fans CPU ...
omreport storage is the interface to the RAID controller and the disks.

And with omconfig you can configure your BIOS, warning levels for fans
.. and best of all, you can manage your disks (assign hot spare,
remoe/insert disks....).

We usually disable the webservice and use only the CLI. For nagios and
BigBrother you can get plugins which use omreport for remote monitoring.

OMSA is a replacement for the old megaraid and afacli tools for Dell
PERCs, but you should bring your BIOS and firmware versions up to date
for newer versions.

You can get the update packages at the ftp site or at the web support site.


> 2009/2/4 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>:
>> If you have an HP server and the "HP Proliant Support Pack" installed,
>> you can query and
>> Configure the RAID card with the command: hpacucli (hp array
>> configuration utility
>> command line interface).
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of john maclean
>> Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 11:33 a.m.
>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>> Subject: Re: determine hardware raid
>>
>> So am I right in thinking that the -only- way to do this results in
>> server downtime? I know how to get to a sever's RAID configurations.
>> Looks like dmidecode wont be able to help either.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/2/4 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>:
>>> Yes, you can reboot the server and there will be a BIOS interface for
>>> the RAID Card, in here it will list all the details of your RAID
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of john maclean
>>> Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 9:38 a.m.
>>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>> Subject: determine hardware raid
>>>
>>> Chaps,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to determine hardware RAID and the type used? I know
>>> that mdadm is available for software RAID. Please do tell me if this
>>> is the wrong list and I'll move along ;-)
>>>
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Regards,
Berthold Cogel