How to set up MegaRAID email alerts under Linux?

How to set up MegaRAID email alerts under Linux?

  • I have Ubuntu 10.04 and MegaRAID controller. The only tool I have is the notorious MegaCli. I need to be emailed when some disk has failed in the RAID array. How to set that up?

  • Answer:

    Create script like: #!/bin/bash STATUS=`MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL -NoLog|egrep '^ (Degraded|Failed)'|grep -v ' 0'`; if [ "x$STATUS" != "x" ]; then echo -e "Subject: RAID WARNING @ `hostname`\n\n$STATUS"|/usr/sbin/sendmail [email protected] fi and add it to your crontab: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto You also need valid sendmail program on your system, simplest config via ssmtp will be enough thou.

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You can get the MegaRAID Storage Manager http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads/, and it can be setup to email you on RAID events (amongst other things, like SNMP). There's no speicifc Ubuntu version of it, but LSI provides a http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16108.aspx that explains how to get the "Linux" version working; hopfully it'll work for you, or at least get you going.

techie007

I think the Nagios plugin check_raid speaks megacli. You could use it standalone to write your own script. Like all Nagios plugins, it gives you an exit code of 1 if it thinks something is wrong. A cron entry like sh -c "check_raid > /tmp/raid_status || cat /tmp/raid_status" should give you a very basic solution.

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