Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:33:42 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: adaptec utilities on amd64? Message-ID: <45638CD6.7040501@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <200611210059.kAL0xrdY005380@ambrisko.com> References: <200611210059.kAL0xrdY005380@ambrisko.com>
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Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Scott Long writes: > | Vivek Khera wrote: > | > On Nov 15, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Bruce Burden wrote: > | > > | >> I have a 2230SLP that I will be installing early next week > | >> on my AMD64 implementation. I am hoping that the aaccli program > | >> in ports will work. > | > > | > If it has the newer firmware, it will not work with aaccli. If you got > | > the card after they switched to the "R" revision, you have the newer > | > firmware. > | > > | > Some time long ago, someone posted a very short C program that probes > | > the LSI controller and spits out this kind of output: > | > > | > [root@d03]# amrstat > | > Drive 0: 34.18 GB, RAID1 <writeback,no-read-ahead,no-adaptative-io> > | > optimal > | > Drive 1: 102.54 GB, RAID1 <writeback,no-read-ahead,no-adaptative-io> > | > optimal > | > > | > This is the kind of output I'd love to get from my adaptec controllers, > | > too. This can be trivially scripted and hooked into a monitoring system > | > like nagios. > | > > | > The aaccli tool is a curses based app (despite the "cli" in the name) > | > and scripting it is damn near impossible. It doesn't even read commands > | > from stdin! > | > | Yes, scripting it is possible, and it does have a non-interactive mode. > | Try the following: > | > | printf "open aac0\ncontroller details\nexit\n" | aaccli > > Scott, did you forget about the cli mode: > aaccli "open aac0: controller details" > which produces very nice output :-) > > Doug A. I did. When I wrote the previous email, I couldn't remember what the magic separator character was. Thanks for the reminder. Scott
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