mfid, raid monitoring daemon

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 3/9/12 5:53 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> On 09/03/2012 11:52, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>> On 3/8/12 7:08 PM, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>> I'm trying to decide if I should cram "mfid" for mfi(4) controllers into
>>> the src tree or if we should package it up into a ports package.  I
>>> suspect that either one is acceptible, but it seems to make more sense
>>> to put it into the src tree since mfiutil is also there.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> ref:  http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/sbruno/mfid/
>>
>> For what it's worth, we use the following plugin for our Nagios RAID
>> checks on MFI controllers.
>> I'm attaching the nagios script below for those that are interested.
>> The downside is it uses Megacli and all the linux compatibility stuff :(
>>
>>
>>
>> I for one would be *delighted* if a system came up that would allow me
>> to skip the whole linux compatibility layer !
>>
> Can you not get enough info via mfiutil? not to mention there is a
> FreeBSD megacli
> sysutils/megacli as well as sysutils/linux-megacli
> 
> that said I favour a port for the reasons you give below.
> 
> Vince

We've never tried with mfiutil actually, could be worth a look.


Regarding megacli, we're using the linux one and I'd be so happy to get
shot of it, too many dependencies...