Hi all,

I am running RedHat Advance Server 3.0 on several HP ProLiant BL25p
servers.
As a matter of fact are the two disk mirrored over a hardware raid
directly build in into the blade.
To connect to the disk are we using the cciss driver as recommended by
HP.

The only problem we have now is that we are not able to detect any
problems on the disk, as the module does not report any problems back
to the operating system.

Does somebody have something similar in place with a running disk
monitoring, or does know where I should look at? I've already checked
the HP utilities. But of some reason are they not really useful as
they also not show me if a disk is having trouble.

Thanks for every idea and hint in advance and all the best,
Si

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:50:59 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, simon.reber@gmail.com
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am running RedHat Advance Server 3.0 on several HP ProLiant BL25p
> servers.
> As a matter of fact are the two disk mirrored over a hardware raid
> directly build in into the blade.
> To connect to the disk are we using the cciss driver as recommended by
> HP.
>
> The only problem we have now is that we are not able to detect any
> problems on the disk, as the module does not report any problems back
> to the operating system.
>
> Does somebody have something similar in place with a running disk
> monitoring, or does know where I should look at? I've already checked
> the HP utilities. But of some reason are they not really useful as
> they also not show me if a disk is having trouble.

Sure they do. Do you have this installed?

[root@here ~]# rpm -qif `which hpacucli`
Name : hpacucli Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 7.80 Vendor: HP Company
Release : 6 Build Date: Mon 16 Apr 2007 10:25:32
PM GMT
Install Date: Sat 04 Aug 2007 05:09:24 AM GMT Build Host:
localhost.localdomain
Group : Applications/System Source RPM: hpacucli-7.80-6.src.rpm
Size : 8746855 License: 2005 Hewlett-Packard
Development Company, L.P.
Signature : (none)
Summary : HP Command Line Array Configuration Utility
Description :
The HP Command Line Array Configuration Utility is the disk
array configuration program for Array Controllers.

[root@here ~]# hpacucli controller slot=0 logicaldrive all show

Smart Array 6i in Slot 0

array A

logicaldrive 1 (838.2 GB, RAID 1+0, OK)

[root@here ~]# hpacucli controller slot=0 physicaldrive all show

Smart Array 6i in Slot 0

array A

physicaldrive 2:0 (port 2:id 0 , Parallel SCSI, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2:1 (port 2:id 1 , Parallel SCSI, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2:2 (port 2:id 2 , Parallel SCSI, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2:3 (port 2:id 3 , Parallel SCSI, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2:4 (port 2:id 4 , Parallel SCSI, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2:5 (port 2:id 5 , Parallel SCSI, 300 GB, OK)

--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

simon.reber@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running RedHat Advance Server 3.0 on several HP ProLiant BL25p
> servers.
> As a matter of fact are the two disk mirrored over a hardware raid
> directly build in into the blade.
> To connect to the disk are we using the cciss driver as recommended by
> HP.
>
> The only problem we have now is that we are not able to detect any
> problems on the disk, as the module does not report any problems back
> to the operating system.
>
> Does somebody have something similar in place with a running disk
> monitoring, or does know where I should look at? I've already checked
> the HP utilities. But of some reason are they not really useful as
> they also not show me if a disk is having trouble.
>
> Thanks for every idea and hint in advance and all the best,
> Si

What makes you think you disks have a problem?