Re: CCISS driver and disk failure...

[Matt C <wago@phlinux.com>]

Hi David-

The only way we're able to do this on proliants is to use the *hack* 
closed-source HP kernel modules cpqasm and cpqevt. We then run their 30+ 
userspace daemons that monitor the system via these 2 kernel modules. Slap 
their hacked up ucd-snmpd on top of that and you get disk status 
monitoring via SNMP on the machine.

On a redhat machine, that's the following RPMs from HP:
cmafdtn
cmanic
cmastor
cmasvr
cpqhealth
ucd-snmp (from HP, of course)

It's a nasty mess, though, so if the cciss author had the time to put disk 
fail logging into the driver, that'd be amazingly cool.

-Matt

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, David Brown wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Does anyone know of an easy way to get messages (via syslog or
> otherwise) when a member disk of a CCISS SMART-2 raid array fails?
> Grepping through drivers/block/cciss.c didn't yield any obvious
> printk's. My gut feeling is that one could get the disk failure
> information through one of the CCISS_PASSTHRU ioctls(); I saw some
> reference to a similar call in code for monitoring the cpqarray
> driver.
> 
> HP appears to have some sort of management suite, but it appears to
> require X11 server-side, which isn't an option on this machine.
> 
> Is there an easy way to get disk failure information from the CCISS
> driver, or should I continue relying on the pretty LEDs? :)
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> - Dave
> 
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