[CentOS] RAID / OS Monitoring tools ?

Spiro Harvey
2008-09-22T22:17:20Z

> Now I want to be able to monitor the box, specifically with respect
> to the RAID drives so I'll know if one has gone bad and the RAID
> configuration has failed over to it. Anyone have any suggestions for
> tools to use ?

We use 3Ware RAID cards, and they have a CLI util called tw_cli. We run
"tw_cli info c0" every hour into a rotating file. Then from crontab we
run a script that diffs the current output to the last hour's output.

If there's a difference, it emails us.



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