Monitoring of Raid: ciss

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
> Hey Guys!
> 
> We are thinking about getting a HP blade chassis and I am wondering
> whether the HP Smart Array E200i (as found in BL460c) supports
> monitoring of the hardware raid under FreeBSD, so that it exposes which
> disk failed and that we can see *THAT* a disk failed.
> 
> Currently we've a Dell 1855 and 1955 blade chassis here, but it does not
> expose those values via SNMP nor does mpt (using LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
> SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS) provide an interface to monitor.

Syslog will show when a drive fails, the controller starts to use a hotspare,
rebuilds, finishes the rebuild etc.

Not sure, as I have never looked into it, if there is anything else right now.
HP supposely just recently hired 1 engineer to start providing management
drivers for FreeBSD, so hopefully soon we will have things like hpacucli,
which allows to control the controller, like creating, extending a raid.

> 
> Sincerly
> 
> Nico
> 
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