Smart Array 6i and FreeBSD 6.1

[Oliver Fromme]

Christoph Schug wrote:
 > Kai Gallasch wrote:
 > > userland software for the smart array 6i:
 > > 
 > > I heard that there is a userland binary for the smart array 6i available
 > > from HP which is said to work with FreeBSD (Linux emulation).
 > > Where do I find this Linux package? (RPM?) I searched HP but cannot find
 > >  the stuff.
 > 
 > I guess you're talking about the tools at [1]. AFAIK those tools do not
 > work on recent FreeBSD releases but I may be wrong.
 > [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/

They work fine on 6.1-RELEASE (and RELENG_6) if compat5 is
installed.

 > > environmental monitoring:
 > > 
 > > It seems that the mbmon port does not work with the DL385 hardware. How
 > > can I monitor the server/cpu temperature of the server in a 100% FreeBSD
 > > environment? Is there a way to make snmp queries to the ilo Interface
 > > and use an snmp oid that gives back temperature an fanhealth values?
 > 
 > AFAIK you can't.

You can.  The hpasmd/hpasmcli tools at [1] (see above) can
be used for that purpose.  (One important thing is that
hpasmd should only be started with the -i option.  Without
it, random reboots can happen under certain conditions.)
See example below.

Regarding RAID5:  Personally I try to avoid it.  If HA is
a concern, I recommend to use RAID1.

Just my 2 cents.

Best regards
   Oliver

PS:  Using hpasmd + hpasmcli on a HP ProLiant DL360 G4 to
report temperature, fans, and UID LED status:

# uname -rs
FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE
# hpasmcli -s "show temp; show fans; show uid"

Sensor   Location              Temp       Threshold
------   --------              ----       ---------
#0        SYSTEM_BD             -          -
#1        I/O_ZONE             38C/100F   63C/145F
#2        CPU#1                46C/114F   85C/185F
#3        CPU#2                47C/116F   85C/185F
#4        POWER_SUPPLY_BAY     32C/89F    48C/118F
#5        SYSTEM_BD            30C/86F    41C/105F

Fan  Location        Present Speed  of max  Redundant  Partner  Hot-pluggable
---  --------        ------- -----  ------  ---------  -------  -------------
#1   PROCESSOR_ZONE  Yes     NORMAL 49%     Yes        0        No
#2   SYSTEM          Yes     NORMAL 49%     Yes        0        No

UID is currently off.

# hpasmcli -s "set uid on"

UID is now on.


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