[lug] Query about RAID monitoring

[Hugh Brown]

I've used the 3ware monitoring daemon and have it run checks weekly
during off hours.  It can be configured to email you a variety of things
or just display it on the web server it runs.  It seemed to be a useful
little package.

Hugh

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:09, George Sexton wrote:
> 3Ware has a monitoring Daemon that sends Email when the array has a
> problem.
> 
> It also has a web server built in that you can access the status of the
> array from.
> 
> It's pretty reasonable overall. The only thing I think a purist would
> want would be SNMP traps
> 
> George Sexton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us
> [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Brown
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 9:52 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Query about RAID monitoring
> 
> 
> I am curious, for those of you dealing with linux servers utilizing RAID
> configurations of any type, what type of monitoring does your hardware
> give you? For instance say in a RAID-1,5,10 w/ a hot spare does the
> software notify you when a drive goes bad? What type of
> hardware/software are you using? Thanks.