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Cc: jayesh.jayan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Software to monitor RAID 5 Hardware on Dell Server.
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Jayesh Jayan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had disturbed you all with some doubts regarding freebsd before.
> 
> Now i have servers up and running.
> 
> I am using the monitoring tool named nagios for checking the services run on
> the server.
> 
> Now i am in need of a software or so to monitor the RAID hardware ......
> 
> Below is the URL to the specification of Dell server which I use.
> 
> http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2850?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd#tabtop
>  Please guide me on this.

Have a look at sysutils/megarc from ports. You can use it to query LSI
MegaRAID-based controllers (like the Dell Perc4). It is severely lacking
documentation, but it works. You can for instance use
	megarc -dispCfg -a0
to show the status for the RAIDs on the first controller.

Martin