We are using Red Hat AS 4.5 x86_64 on a Dell 5860. The server has a five disk hardware RAID 5 group. If we lose a disk in that RAID group my unix admins are under the impression the only way to tell is by looking at the blinking lights on the front of the server. I would hope that the hardware would be able to report the disk failure to the OS.

Anyone have experience in losing a single disk in a RAID 5 array? Does it report messages to the OS, or just change the colors of the blinking lights on the front of the server?

Thanks,

Joe

Hi,

take a look at: http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml

More specifically the management utilites on that storage page..


also look at OMSA http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml


If you are running nagios for instance..
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bi...=2486.html;d=1

I was told that open manage wasn't available for linux by my *nix administrator. Obviously it is with several releases and patches available. Thanks a bunch!

Won't he be surprised