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Date:      Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:10:47 +0100
From:      Sascha Holzleiter <sascha@daemonground.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...
Message-ID:  <20051125101047.GA11963@serverbitch.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051124230726.G63444@ns1.as.pvp.se>
References:  <20051123033644.O1053@ganymede.hub.org> <4385FFED.3050003@crc.u-strasbg.fr> <20051124181507.GA3012@serverbitch.de> <20051124183412.GA50476@intserv.int1.b.intern> <20051124230726.G63444@ns1.as.pvp.se>

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Hi,

thanks for the input on this.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:08:28PM +0100, kama wrote:
> > > do you know of any method to monitor these [ciss] controllers with FreeBSD,
> > > e.g. to detect drive failures?
> >
> > You could simply monitor the corresponding ciss syslog-messages
> > and scan for state changes (ie from OK to something else). Apart
> > from reboot-messages, you only get messages if states are
> > changing...

This is what is done already but I always wanted to watch the drives
directly. The camcontrol approach seems to satisfy this.

> Maybe this is what you are looking for?
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/

Also looks promising, I'll definitly try the hpasmcli util and hope
there is more to it than the screenshot is showing :)


Thanks,

-- 
  Sascha



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