Monitor hardware RAID on IBM Express x3550 in F9

[Gary Stainburn]

Firstly, I made a mistake. This is a FC9 system, not FC14.

I tried installing freeipmi but it didn't give me the ipmitool command.
I uninstalled that and installed OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools

However, when I ran the command suggested all I got was errors.  

[root at ollie ~]# ipmitool sensor
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such 
file or directory
Get Device ID command failed
Unable to open SDR for reading
[root at ollie ~]# 

Is it possible that it's not a compatible RAID controller?
Is there any way of seeing which controller is installed?  I tried lspci and 
got the following. Is that a compatible controller?

[root at ollie ~]# lspci|grep -i raid
02:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 02)
[root at ollie ~]#


Gary


On Friday 11 November 2011 14:02:26 Morten Stevens wrote:
> On 11.11.2011 14:47, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> > If it's a serveraid card then some of the RAID status information is
> > available via ipmi. The ipmi-sensors command (part of freeipmi)
> > should
> > be able to display drive status and overall RAID error status.
> >
> > If you don't mind using the vendor's proprietary tools then either
> > IBM's
> > ServeRAID manager or Adaptec's own raid management tool should work
> > with
> > these cards.
>
> We have the same IBM server.
>
> IPMI does not display the raid status.
>
> Only this:
>
> # ipmitool sensor
> Drive 1 Status   | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0180| na        | na
>
>    | na        | na        | na        | na
>
> Drive 2 Status   | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0180| na        | na
>
>    | na        | na        | na        | na
>
> Drive 3 Status   | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0180| na        | na
>
>    | na        | na        | na        | na
>
> Drive 4 Status   | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0180| na        | na
>
>    | na        | na        | na        | na
>
> RAID Error       | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0080| na        | na
>
>    | na        | na        | na        | na
>
> Therefore, I recommend the proprietary IBM/Adaptec tools.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Morten



-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk