Patrick_Boyd | 1 Feb 2008 16:58
Picon
Favicon

RE: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

My recommendation? OMSA it works for PERC 3/4/5/6, CERC, and SAS 5/6. No
other tool does that.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces <at> dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces <at> dell.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Saou
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:39 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

Patrick_Boyd <at> dell.com wrote :

> MegaCLI doesn't support the SAS iR controllers.

What is the right command line tool for those, then? My Dell sales guy
managed to convince me that for a simple 2 disk RAID-1 in some PE1950
III, I would be fine using the SAS 6/iR instead of choosing a PERC...
but for the RAID status monitoring, I need to find the right tool and
create yet another script for the monitoring tool I use :-(

Matthias

--

-- 
Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux kernel 2.6.23.14-107.fc8
Load : 0.38 0.31 0.18

_______________________________________________
Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
Linux-PowerEdge <at> dell.com
(Continue reading)

J. Epperson | 1 Feb 2008 17:15

RE: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

On Fri, February 1, 2008 10:58, Patrick_Boyd <at> dell.com wrote:
> My recommendation? OMSA it works for PERC 3/4/5/6, CERC, and SAS 5/6. No
> other tool does that.
>

Fine if you need a tool that does all that OMSA does, like a Swiss Army
Knife.  Kind of bloated if all you are after is command-line status
checking.  The mptfusion/mptsas CLI tool was mpt-status through the SAS
5/iR, bet it also works with 6/iR.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces <at> dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces <at> dell.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Saou
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:39 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200
>
> Patrick_Boyd <at> dell.com wrote :
>
>> MegaCLI doesn't support the SAS iR controllers.
>
> What is the right command line tool for those, then? My Dell sales guy
> managed to convince me that for a simple 2 disk RAID-1 in some PE1950
> III, I would be fine using the SAS 6/iR instead of choosing a PERC...
> but for the RAID status monitoring, I need to find the right tool and
> create yet another script for the monitoring tool I use :-(
>

_______________________________________________
Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
(Continue reading)

Wolfram Schlich | 1 Feb 2008 17:35

Re: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

* J. Epperson <Dell <at> epperson.homelinux.net> [2008-02-01 17:16]:
> On Fri, February 1, 2008 10:58, Patrick_Boyd <at> dell.com wrote:
> > My recommendation? OMSA it works for PERC 3/4/5/6, CERC, and SAS 5/6. No
> > other tool does that.
> >
> 
> Fine if you need a tool that does all that OMSA does, like a Swiss Army
> Knife.  Kind of bloated if all you are after is command-line status
> checking.

Seconded.

> The mptfusion/mptsas CLI tool was mpt-status through the SAS
> 5/iR, bet it also works with 6/iR.

Confirmed -- it works with SAS6/iR as well :)
Thanks!

Unfortunately it can only output the status but not manage the
RAID/controller... but better than nothing!
--

-- 
Regards,
Wolfram Schlich <wschlich <at> gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/

_______________________________________________
Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
Linux-PowerEdge <at> dell.com
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
(Continue reading)

Matthias Saou | 1 Feb 2008 17:41

Re: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

Wolfram Schlich wrote :

> > The mptfusion/mptsas CLI tool was mpt-status through the SAS
> > 5/iR, bet it also works with 6/iR.
> 
> Confirmed -- it works with SAS6/iR as well :)
> Thanks!
> 
> Unfortunately it can only output the status but not manage the
> RAID/controller... but better than nothing!

Sounds exactly like what I want. Where can I find it? Searching for
mptfusion or mptsas returns only results related to the kernel
modules...

Matthias

--

-- 
Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux kernel 2.6.23.14-107.fc8
Load : 0.32 0.14 0.10

_______________________________________________
Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
Linux-PowerEdge <at> dell.com
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq

Wolfram Schlich | 1 Feb 2008 17:48

Re: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

* Matthias Saou <thias <at> spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
[2008-02-01 17:46]:
> Wolfram Schlich wrote :
> 
> > > The mptfusion/mptsas CLI tool was mpt-status through the SAS
> > > 5/iR, bet it also works with 6/iR.
> > 
> > Confirmed -- it works with SAS6/iR as well :)
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Unfortunately it can only output the status but not manage the
> > RAID/controller... but better than nothing!
> 
> Sounds exactly like what I want. Where can I find it? Searching for
> mptfusion or mptsas returns only results related to the kernel
> modules...

http://www.drugphish.ch/~ratz/mpt-status/

If you're using Gentoo, just emerge sys-block-mpt-status ;)
Have fun!
--

-- 
Regards,
Wolfram Schlich <wschlich <at> gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/

_______________________________________________
Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
Linux-PowerEdge <at> dell.com
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
(Continue reading)

Wolfram Schlich | 1 Feb 2008 18:29

Re: LSI MegaCli and SAS6/iR in PowerEdge R200

* Wolfram Schlich <lists <at> wolfram.schlich.org> [2008-02-01 18:26]:
> If you're using Gentoo, just emerge sys-block-mpt-status ;)

Whoops, that should've been sys-block/mpt-status of course ;)
--

-- 
Regards,
Wolfram Schlich <wschlich <at> gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/

_______________________________________________
Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
Linux-PowerEdge <at> dell.com
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq


Gmane