Zulus Tips

My experience show, what redundant arrays is not guaranty data safety. No, I’m not forget about backups, but usually, restore procedure can take a lot of time. So to prevent arrays crashing i have write small plugin for Nagios. This plugin, written on Perl, allows you monitor few types of RAID arrays:

• Software RAID1 (FreeBSD gmirror)
• 3ware RAID (tested on 9550SX-12, 9500S-4LP)
• PERC RAID (tested on PERC 4)

This is enough for me, but you can easily add any other hardware/software RAID types.

Here you can download that script. Enjoy.

Update.

This script use external software. MegaRC for PERC controller, and tw_cli for 3ware controller. FreeBSD users can find this utilites in ports.

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