[rhn-users] Hardware RAID health monitor

[Bernt Habermeier]

[IMAGE]Thank you.  Yes, I tried to ask them first.  Here is what I asked
their tech support guy:

Ok, this sounds a bit stupid, but is there a website / documentation that
explains the benefits of using a driver like this?

Ultimately I'm looking to get emails when the hardware detects a drive is
down or not doing well.  Beyond that I care about performance, and
possibly the ability of the file system to automatically grow should I
throw in more hard drives.

But I'm unsure if I get all this by installing a driver.  Do I?

--- and here is their answer:

Bernt, Not really...  I'm pretty sure there will be a driver in the OS
already.  If there is then I would just use that.  We do not have a
utility that sends emails or pages when a drive is failing.   Thank you,
Jason Turner
LSI Support-02
LSI Logic - Field Support Technician
support at lsil.com
http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/main.do
Technical Support (800) 633-4545

So I'm guessing that I'm out of luck.  What hardware RAID card should I
have gotten? 

> Hi Bernt,
>
> For the most part, the manufacturer of the board supplies these tools,
> they are in the best position to since it's their cards. Have you tried
> going to their website to see what sort of software they have for
Linux?
>
> Michael.
>
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> On Behalf Of Bernt Habermeier
> Sent: Friday, 2 June 2006 11:33 AM
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] Hardware RAID health monitor
>
>
> I just bought 2 servers, and they have the following hardware RAID
> controller in them: LSI megaraid 320-1 (SCSI). I would like to set up
> some kind of health monitoring & emailing of warnings when the
> controller detects that a hard drive is going bad -- or has gone bad
> (and the controller switched over to the hot spare).
>
> I've googled around a bit -- but have not found something that would
> lead me to believe this really exists, though I can't imagine that it
> doesn't. I mean -- it just makes sense to have that kind of
> functionality.
>
> I did find "lm_sensors" -- not sure this is what I need thouhg.
>
> I'm running the following Red Hat product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
> (v. 4 for AMD64/Intel EM64T)
> Kernel Version: 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp
>
>

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