Monitoring tools for raid controller
Hello, My server is getting me crazy. I installed SuSE 10.0 (64 bits) using a raid controller (Adaptec 2020SA Zero Channel) so the driver installed was "aacraid" that detected all the drives attached to the raid card with no problems and system installed smoothly. Before installing, I defined 2 raid levels on s-ata hard drives: Raid 1: disks 1 and 2 for operating system Raid 5: disks 3, 4 and 5 for data backup After one or two months I am experiencing a very strange arrays degradations. The card beeps, detects a disk failure and starts rebuilding the array, but there is no evidence of this on /var/log/messages neither /var/log/warn and hard drives seems to be O.K. I was wondering if there is any utility to check the status of the arrays under SuSE 10.0 and what are your experiences with this controller (if any). I don't know what can be happening (why arrays became degraded and why SuSE does not log anything). There is an utility application provided by the manufacturer of the board (Supermicro) to manage arrays (Adaptec Storage Manager - ASM), but not sure if can be installed on this SuSE release. It seems that uses Java and my system is console based. Any experience you could provide me are very welcome. :-) Greetings. -- Camaleón
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 21:05 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
After one or two months I am experiencing a very strange arrays degradations. The card beeps, detects a disk failure and starts rebuilding the array, but there is no evidence of this on /var/log/messages neither /var/log/warn and hard drives seems to be O.K. You may simply have a poor connection on one of the SATA cables/connectors - that's unfortunately very common. You won't see anything in your logs because the card handles this on it's own. The OS doesn't even know there is more than one disc or raid involved.
I was wondering if there is any utility to check the status of the arrays under SuSE 10.0 and what are your experiences with this controller (if any). I don't know what can be happening (why arrays became degraded and why SuSE does not log anything). As far as I remember there is software on the CD included (yes, for linux too! :-).
uses Java and my system is console based. Java doesn't neccessarily imply a graphical package. I have used several java programs on a SLES server that has no X installed.
Hans
2006/4/3, Hans du Plooy:
You may simply have a poor connection on one of the SATA cables/connectors - that's unfortunately very common. You won't see anything in your logs because the card handles this on it's own. The OS doesn't even know there is more than one disc or raid involved.
Maybe... I will take a look on that. It's a brand-new system (just 6 months), and it is well located on a server rack room with cooling facility, and no one can phisically access to the server chasis.
As far as I remember there is software on the CD included (yes, for linux too! :-).
Oh, yes, but the Adaptec's* one it's for suse 9.x, not sure if this can be a problem. The Supermicro's** has no info available about versions, but it is a newer release, just wondering if someone use any of these ones.
Java doesn't neccessarily imply a graphical package. I have used several java programs on a SLES server that has no X installed.
So, do you think I can run this program on a command line environment? * http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=/Product/AAR-2020SA&filekey=asm-linux_v2.12(922).rpm ** ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/Adaptec_Storage_Management/ASM4494/linux/64bit/ASM/ Greetings. -- Camaleón
Hi, On Monday 03 April 2006 21:05, Camaleón wrote:
My server is getting me crazy. I installed SuSE 10.0 (64 bits) using a raid controller (Adaptec 2020SA Zero Channel) so the driver installed was "aacraid" that detected all the drives attached to the raid card with no problems and system installed smoothly.
as many, many, many other people disliked the Adaptec tools, there is a command line tool developed and published by Dell (Yes. It's there. I don't know why, either.) You might want to try afacli from http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R85529&formatcnt=1&fileid=112003 HTH, Regards, Bastian -- Bastian Friedrich bastian@bastian-friedrich.de Adress & Fon available on my HP http://www.bastian-friedrich.de/ \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ \ I am. Therefore, I think. I think.
2006/4/3, Bastian Friedrich:
as many, many, many other people disliked the Adaptec tools, there is a command line tool developed and published by Dell (Yes. It's there. I don't know why, either.)
You might want to try afacli from http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R85529&formatcnt=1&fileid=112003
But this file seems to be for a very specific type of controllers (scsi ones installed on Dell systems) and relased for Redhat*, not sure if this can fit over a SuSE 10.0 system. * http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/downloads/en/compatibility?c=us&l=en&releaseid=R85529&s=gen&~mode=popup Greetings. -- Camaleón
Hi, On Tuesday 04 April 2006 09:12, Camaleón wrote:
2006/4/3, Bastian Friedrich:
as many, many, many other people disliked the Adaptec tools, there is a command line tool developed and published by Dell (Yes. It's there. I don't know why, either.)
You might want to try afacli from http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s =gen&releaseid=R85529&formatcnt=1&fileid=112003
But this file seems to be for a very specific type of controllers (scsi ones installed on Dell systems) and relased for Redhat*, not sure if this can fit over a SuSE 10.0 system.
As far as I know, the program will work with /any/ aacraid driver. I don't have a Dell controller, either (it is SCSI, though). Try it. I extracted the programs from the contained RPM file and put them somewhere different from the default location (/usr/local/sbin, to be precise). They work on my SuSE 10.0 installation. Regards, Bastian -- Bastian Friedrich bastian@bastian-friedrich.de Adress & Fon available on my HP http://www.bastian-friedrich.de/ \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ \ Remember, Subaru spelled backwards is U-R-A-BUS.
2006/4/4, Bastian Friedrich:
I extracted the programs from the contained RPM file and put them somewhere different from the default location (/usr/local/sbin, to be precise). They work on my SuSE 10.0 installation.
What scsi controller have you installed in your system? Adaptec's one? On the other hand, how does the program works? Command line console or needs a graphical environment? Is there any manual where I can take a look? Greetings. -- Camaleón
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 09:46, Camaleón wrote:
2006/4/4, Bastian Friedrich:
I extracted the programs from the contained RPM file and put them somewhere different from the default location (/usr/local/sbin, to be precise). They work on my SuSE 10.0 installation.
What scsi controller have you installed in your system? Adaptec's one?
ICP Vortex ICP9024RO
On the other hand, how does the program works?
Both text-mode interactive mode as well as direct (scriptable) command line mode.
Is there any manual where I can take a look?
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/57kgr/cli/en/index.htm This is the base address for Dell's aacraid support: http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml Bastian -- Bastian Friedrich bastian@bastian-friedrich.de Adress & Fon available on my HP http://www.bastian-friedrich.de/ \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ \ My favourite mythical creature? The honest politician.
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