ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

[Holger Kipp]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:15:07PM +0100, Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Philippe Pegon wrote:
> > We have about thirty HP servers (DL360 and DL380) with FreeBSD 5 and 6, 
> > and they seem to work fine with ciss driver. Just this damn bug 
> > (kern/83375) which is not related to ciss driver...
> 
> do you know of any method to monitor these [ciss] controllers with FreeBSD,
> e.g. to detect drive failures?

You could simply monitor the corresponding ciss syslog-messages
and scan for state changes (ie from OK to something else). Apart
from reboot-messages, you only get messages if states are
changing... 

Regards,
Holger Kipp
alogis AG, Berlin