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

[Philippe Pegon]

Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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 controllers with FreeBSD,
> e.g. to detect drive failures?

We use camcontrol(8) and a perl script.

The perl script runs every five minutes a command like that :

# camcontrol inquiry da0 -D
pass0: <COMPAQ RAID 5  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device

and when the output changes, it sends an alarm by mail.

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Philippe Pegon