From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 16:53:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1ADC106566C for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFCC8FC16 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman-macbooklocal.local (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q29Grfw3002751 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:53:42 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4F5A3595.5070208@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:53:41 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <1331230126.3075.13.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> <4F59EF04.3070806@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <4F59EF04.3070806@my.gd> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: mfid, raid monitoring daemon X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:53:43 -0000 On 09/03/2012 11:52, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 3/8/12 7:08 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: >> I'm trying to decide if I should cram "mfid" for mfi(4) controllers into >> the src tree or if we should package it up into a ports package. I >> suspect that either one is acceptible, but it seems to make more sense >> to put it into the src tree since mfiutil is also there. >> >> Comments? >> >> Sean >> >> ref: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/sbruno/mfid/ > > For what it's worth, we use the following plugin for our Nagios RAID > checks on MFI controllers. > I'm attaching the nagios script below for those that are interested. > The downside is it uses Megacli and all the linux compatibility stuff :( > > > > I for one would be *delighted* if a system came up that would allow me > to skip the whole linux compatibility layer ! > Can you not get enough info via mfiutil? not to mention there is a FreeBSD megacli sysutils/megacli as well as sysutils/linux-megacli that said I favour a port for the reasons you give below. Vince > IMO: > - port: flexibility (can choose to install or not, can update whenever > you want) > - base: no hassle with managing the port, at the cost of less > flexibility (installed by default, updates only with the base system) > > > I slightly favor a port. > > > >