[Big-C]

Hi,

Does anybody here have a Raid 5 volume setup? If so, do you happen to know a unix command for displaying details about the raid? I'm interested in emailing the status of the raid to myself each morning.

I can make the email part happen, but I can't figure out the command to list the status of the raid.

I've found that 'diskutil checkraid' will list my mirrors - but not raid 5 (or I'm doing something wrong)...

Thanks for any help!

-Chris
PS. Any alternative suggestions about getting this information is welcome!

[gorickey]

Are you using an Xserve RAID box by chance?

[Big-C]

Yes - sorry I didn't provide details;

I have 2 scenario's:

g4 xserve with Xraid connected via fibre. (about 1 year old).
g5 xserve with Xraid connected via fibre.

Both are running 10.3.4.

These machines have moved from testing to production recently.

-Chris

[gorickey]

Well, why can't you use the "Xserve Raid Admin Tools" then to get all the information? It even has an option to E-mail you the data of the RAID when requested?

Just wondering.

[Big-C]

The admin tools are what I'm relying on at the moment, and that is a fine idea...

The only reason I ask for a unix command is that other admin's on my servers have turned off the xraid admin tool and forgot to turn it back on. We had one disk fail in the year we've had the xraid, and I only noticed it because I walked by the machine and the disk light was red. The machine stayed up and worked perfectly, but I wish I had known when it happened.

While I can admonish them, I feel more comfortable creating a cron job that they don't know how to fiddle with.

No biggee - thanks for your input!

-Chris

[sbjordal]

There are no xserve commandline tools available that would give you that information. I dont have an xraid in front of me, but you could try to telnet or ssh in to the ethernet mgmt ports on the xraid itself to see what's available there. There are some xserve commandline diag tools that you can install also from the Server Admin cd, but I think those are stricktly xserve hardware (hwmond) related. Again, i dont have the equipment in front of me, so this is all from memory.

[dhobbit]

You can use snmp to query the xraid. I've used snmpwalk to get xraid status.

Originally posted by Big-C:
The admin tools are what I'm relying on at the moment, and that is a fine idea...

The only reason I ask for a unix command is that other admin's on my servers have turned off the xraid admin tool and forgot to turn it back on. We had one disk fail in the year we've had the xraid, and I only noticed it because I walked by the machine and the disk light was red. The machine stayed up and worked perfectly, but I wish I had known when it happened.

While I can admonish them, I feel more comfortable creating a cron job that they don't know how to fiddle with.

No biggee - thanks for your input!

-Chris

[msuper69]

Originally posted by Big-C:
The admin tools are what I'm relying on at the moment, and that is a fine idea...

The only reason I ask for a unix command is that other admin's on my servers have turned off the xraid admin tool and forgot to turn it back on. We had one disk fail in the year we've had the xraid, and I only noticed it because I walked by the machine and the disk light was red. The machine stayed up and worked perfectly, but I wish I had known when it happened.

While I can admonish them, I feel more comfortable creating a cron job that they don't know how to fiddle with.

No biggee - thanks for your input!

-Chris

I would not have a good feeling if my server admins didn't know the importance of leaving the admin tools running. Maybe if they have to come in at night and fix a problem because they turned off the tools they might learn an important lesson.

[RayX]

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[RayX]

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