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 Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject: RAID monitoring on a IBM eServer xSeries 335 |
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Hello everyone,
We have several IBM eServers xSeries 335 and we want to monitor the health of the hardware RAID controller and want to get notified if a HDD goes byebye.
Has someone ever done this before?
Here's the type of controller its using:
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Fusion MPT base driver 3.01.16
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.01.16
scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01000e00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=22
Vendor: LSILOGIC Model: 1030 IM Rev: 1000
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 286746624 512-byte hdwr sectors (146814 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: 25P3495a S320 1 Rev: 1
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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Would love to hear it!
Thanks.
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Noone ? 
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I've got a similar issue with a small server that is located in a remote location. My needs are a bit simpler than yours, though.
I did some googling and found two SCSI monitoring tools that are listed as supported by Gentoo that might be useful for you. They are sg3_utils and smartmontools. Of the two, I think that smartmontools is probably closer to what you want, as it includes a daemon to do background monitoring. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| sgtrock wrote: | I've got a similar issue with a small server that is located in a remote location. My needs are a bit simpler than yours, though.
I did some googling and found two SCSI monitoring tools that are listed as supported by Gentoo that might be useful for you. They are sg3_utils and smartmontools. Of the two, I think that smartmontools is probably closer to what you want, as it includes a daemon to do background monitoring. |
Im going to them check out! Thanks very much! 
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: RAID monitoring on a Dell eServer xSeries 335 |
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| [dmnd] wrote: | | Dell eServers xSeries 335 |
I thought xSeries were IBM boxes? |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:48 am Post subject: Re: RAID monitoring on a Dell eServer xSeries 335 |
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| zeek wrote: | | [dmnd] wrote: | | Dell eServers xSeries 335 |
I thought xSeries were IBM boxes? |
Yeah, mistake from my side
The above tools use the generic SCSI driver and the url is a completely different raid controller.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
wouter
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Unfortunately, no, I don't. Those were the only two toolsets that I found that looked at all worthwhile. I've had the daemon from smartmontools running on my server for just a couple of days, so I can't give you much in the way of personal feedback. However, while I was doing my research I did run across this article. It does a great job of explaining the state of SMART technology. You might find that you really don't need a vendor specific solution.
I think it's probably worth your time to at least emerge the smartmontools and check it out for yourself. You might be pleasantly surprised. |
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| sgtrock wrote: | Unfortunately, no, I don't. Those were the only two toolsets that I found that looked at all worthwhile. I've had the daemon from smartmontools running on my server for just a couple of days, so I can't give you much in the way of personal feedback. However, while I was doing my research I did run across this article. It does a great job of explaining the state of SMART technology. You might find that you really don't need a vendor specific solution.
I think it's probably worth your time to at least emerge the smartmontools and check it out for yourself. You might be pleasantly surprised. |
Im going to test this, we have some servers with Mylex controllers also, and those controllers allow you to read out /dev/rd/status for instance, if it contains a OK, it means its ok. It looks like this controller doesnt have such a device name.
Thanks for your response!
Wouter
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Just tried smartmontools, no result however :
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mx0(root) ~ # smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.30 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Device: LSILOGIC 1030 IM Version: 1000
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sun Dec 26 16:12:48 2004 CET
Device does not support SMART
Device does not support Error Counter logging
Device does not support Self Test logging
mx0(root) ~ #
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Hmmm. I gathered from the article that I referenced earlier that virtually all disk vendors and many (most?) tape vendors were supporting SMART now. It's too bad that yours don't.
I don't have any further suggesting short of looking for drives that do support it. I realize that may not be an option for you, however. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. |
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