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sensorsd Support for Monitoring ami

Contributed by Jim on from the omg-sensors dept.

Marco just committed some code to allow monitoring of RAID volumes on ami controllers via the sensors framework.

Here's the commit message:

Display logical disk status in sysctl.  Now one can use sensorsd to
monitor disks on ami.
Ex.: hw.sensors.0=sd2, logical disk, WARNING, drive, degraded

ami support just keeps getting better!

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  1. By Anonymous Cow (83.249.218.172) on

    As soon as I can afford it, I'll upgrade my raidframe setup with a proper raid-controller...

    What controller you might ask; one supported by ami(4) ofcourse :)

  2. By Anonymous Coward (82.182.181.104) on

    Sounds great!

    But... is it so that these sensors work for Adaptec aac in 3.9 but not ami?

    Ask as I earlier built a 3.9 release CD from CVS with aac support. I run this 3.9 release with smp kernel in production on a Dell 2450 server (dual PIII 700). It seems like this 3.9 release can recognize no less than 29 hw sensors on this server. And the disk status sensors are some of them.

    Or... does this work only because of the fact that the aac card is built in on the Dell motherboard? Maybe it's another thing with stand alone cards (I am not a guru on the sensors framework).

    I Only use aac as I have two of these Dell servers on the shelf...


    /P

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (70.27.15.123) on

      > Sounds great!
      >
      > But... is it so that these sensors work for Adaptec aac in 3.9 but not ami?

      What the hell are you talking about? How did you miss the "for Monitoring ami"? It only works on ami cards, aac is totally irrelivant.

      > Ask as I earlier built a 3.9 release CD from CVS with aac support. I run this 3.9 release with smp kernel in production on a Dell 2450 server (dual PIII 700). It seems like this 3.9 release can recognize no less than 29 hw sensors on this server. And the disk status sensors are some of them.

      You mean the status of the disk enclosure(s)? Using ses or safte? That has nothing to do with logical drives on the RAID controller.

      Comments
      1. By Alan DeWitt (70.58.207.244) on

        > What the hell are you talking about?

        Dude. Cut the guy a little slack... his english doesn't seem so good.

        Of course, if he's a native english speaker and he still writes like this, then maybe flaming away is an okay option. :-)

        Comments
        1. By Anonymous Coward (70.27.15.123) on

          > Dude. Cut the guy a little slack... his english doesn't seem so good.

          ami and aac are not english. It doesn't matter what language(s) you speak, there is no reason to be asking such a dumb question.

          Comments
          1. By Anonymous Coward (81.62.243.106) on

            > > Dude. Cut the guy a little slack... his english doesn't seem so good.
            >
            > ami and aac are not english. It doesn't matter what language(s) you speak, there is no reason to be asking such a dumb question.
            Shut up.

    2. By Anonymous Coward (143.166.255.16) on

      That's because of ESM. Have a read.

    3. By Alan DeWitt (70.58.207.244) on

      Since the commits noted in the article are recent, one would assume that the new ami features discussed are not in the 3.9 release.

  3. By Anonymous Coward (216.232.86.77) on

    sensorsd is definitely a nice addon for openbsd. the implementation is definitely one of the simplest around, and seems to work with cheap widely available boards. I haven't even seen any other open or comercial implementation that works anywhere near as well.

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