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Detection of Smartarray controller problems from linux

Douglas D. Denney — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 12:29:12 GMT

Hello,

I have a DL380 with RHEL ES 2.1 installed on it. It also has a SmartArray controller which is doing a RAID 1 of two 18GB disks. The OS sees one 18GB disk and is oblivious to the second device.

Now, my question is this. How can I determine if a disk on the array controller has failed? If this server was running windows and was using compaq insight manager, all would be well. However, since we're running Linux, things seem to operate differently. Is there some way the OS can detect that the disk failed?

Thanks,
Doug

Re: Detection of Smartarray controller problems from linux

Olivier Drouin — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:29:23 GMT

yes, with the hp management agents.

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents/index.html

Re: Detection of Smartarray controller problems from linux

Don_89 — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:53:48 GMT

Here is the correct links for the linux agents you need to run.

1) Install the ucd-snmp package

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/19020.html

(you might have to do rpm -ivh --force )

2) Install the hp agents

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/18523.html

3) Install the disk controller agents

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/18574.html

4) https to port 2381 on the server and login.. no management console needed..

I never install the NIC agents because its a bunch of worthless information which I dont need. Plus, you have to compile and use HP's NIC drivers instead of the TG3 that comes with AS 2.1

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/18572.html

Re: Detection of Smartarray controller problems from linux

Douglas D. Denney — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 07:59:37 GMT

That's what I needed. After looking at the website, I was confused by what I should/should not install. Thanks for clearing it up.