CentOS - Dec 2011 - c6, LSI megaraid drive failure notification

i'm configuring a storage server with CentOS 6.2, it uses a LSI MegaRAID 
SAS controller, I'm using LSI's megacli to configure the storage...   
Any ideas on how to get drive failure notifications out of this 
system?   I'm configuring hot spares but I'd still like some sort of 
notification when a drive has failed so the spare can be replaced.


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john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca                         mid-left coast

On Dec 22, 2011, at 1:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> i'm configuring a storage server with CentOS 6.2, it uses a LSI
MegaRAID
> SAS controller, I'm using LSI's megacli to configure the storage...
> Any ideas on how to get drive failure notifications out of this 
> system?   I'm configuring hot spares but I'd still like some sort
of
> notification when a drive has failed so the spare can be replaced.
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don't know how to do it on CentOS but on Ubuntu, I use megaclisas-status
package which goes hand in hand with megacli and it sends notifications.

If you want, I can e-mail you the megaclisas-status script from /usr/sbin and
beyond that, there's a sysv initscript that periodically checks and sends an
e-mail. Simple enough.

Craig

>i'm configuring a storage server with CentOS 6.2, it uses a LSI MegaRAID
>SAS controller, I'm using LSI's megacli to configure the storage...
>Any ideas on how to get drive failure notifications out of this
>system?   I'm configuring hot spares but I'd still like some sort of
>notification when a drive has failed so the spare can be replaced.
I've tried countless times to get the LSI snmp agent designed just for this
to work in CentOS 5 and 6, no luck.

Resorted to a pathetic snmp extend that runs megacli, sigh...