New port: sysutils/megacli waiting to commit

[Miroslav Lachman]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Miroslav Lachman writes:
> | Doug Ambrisko wrote:

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> | Hi,
> | I am little confused by all these MegaRAID utilities available in ports.
> | (I am new to LSI MegaRAID).
> |
> | I have new Dell R610 with PERC6 identified as:
> |
> | mfi0:<Dell PERC 6>  port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem
> | 0xdf180000-0xdf1bffff,0xdf1c0000-0xdf1fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
> | mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00
> |
> | What is the recommended tool to monitor (and manage) the state of the
> | PERC6 array?
>
> To monitor, I use syslog :-).  I set in loader.conf
> 	hw.mfi.event_class="-2"
> so I see everything logged to dmesg/syslog of all events.
>
> To manage it I use a custom tool but MegaCli should work.
>
> There is a new tool that was added to freebsd "mfiutil" from Yahoo.

Thank you for tip to mfiutil. I upgraded to 7-STABLE where mfiutil is 
also included and it seems simpler than MegaCli. I hope it will work 
without problems ;)

> | I also found on LSI website, that newer FreeBSD MegaCli is available:
> | 5.00.15
> |
> | But I don't know if it supports previous HW or not.
>
> I have yet to see a MegaCli that isn't a super set of the prior.
> The API to the firmware has been stable.

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Miroslav Lachman