confusing aaccli output ...

[Scott Long]

Aaron Wohl wrote:
> Does anyone have a script to run aaccli a few times a day and see if the
> raid is happy?
> 
> It used to be easy with dptutil (previous control program from adaptec
> for the 3200s)... each status had "Optimal" which changed to Degraded or
> whatever.
> 
> aaccli seems geared more twords doing things to the raid than providing
> status.  Id like to know what all the possible failures are and how to
> check for them with aaccli.  I have a cron job check the status every few
> hours... but with aaccli ive never been sure I checked for all the
> failure kinds.
> 

You can script aaccli by piping in the commands that you would normally
type and parsing the output:

$ aaccli < aac_script.txt > aac_output.txt

aac_script.txt:
  open aac0
  container list
  disk list
  exit