Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
- Pasi > /me ducks. > - Original Message - > From: "John R Pierce" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:03 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights > > > On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > ie. you

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 07:03:01AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, > > and keeps the Linux disk<-> ses slot mapping up-to-date. > > i'm amazed this doesn't exist. isn't this a really common

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > OpenIndiana has all that builtin... > > /me ducks. > - Original Message - Yes, and so does many commercial NAS appliances that run on Linux - but do you think they'll tell us how they got it working? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahler

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Christopher Chan
OpenIndiana has all that builtin... /me ducks. - Original Message - From: "John R Pierce" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > ie. you need a daemon/tool

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, >> and keeps the Linux disk<->  ses slot mapping up-to-date. > > i'm amazed this doesn't exist.   isn't this a really common problem wit

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, > and keeps the Linux disk<-> ses slot mapping up-to-date. i'm amazed this doesn't exist. isn't this a really common problem with storage arrays? -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:19:17AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. > > > > There's no daemon currently in Linux responsible for monitoring disk status > > and lighting up SES LEDs accordingly.. > > yikes. tha

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. There's no daemon currently in Linux respo

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. > > There's no daemon currently in Linux responsible for monitoring disk status > and lighting up SES LEDs accordingly.. yikes. thats pretty amateur. I thought Linux was better than that. I've found some m

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. Maybe, I presume its vendor specific but if they appear to linux in sys, maybe a solution like the first link suggests? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560432 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/3/193 ___

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:19:22AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > So I'm curious how SAS JBOD arrays and linux MDraid as implemented in > CentOS6, and SES (SCSI/SAS Enclosure Services) backplane controllers > 'get along' and how much configuration is needed to get the warning > lights to work pro