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After buying Sun server and realizing that they are NOT using LSI RAID controllers and MegaCli will not work, do not despair.

Yes it is Adaptec. Or a Sun-ified Adaptec called Storagetek, whatever.

Do what you would otherwise never do: Look on the CD that came with the server. (Or download from Sun's download page http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4450/downloads.jsp, but these non-understanding people requires you to register and I can never remember what password I used. Geek appeal -1).

You are looking for something called Storman. The package on the cd is called asm_linux_x64_v5_30_17509.rpm (or x86 if that stuff still exists and it can be alien'ed to debian with no hacks necessary at all:

alien asm_linux_x64_v5_30_17509.rpm

The package storman_5.30-17510_amd64.deb comes out of it and can be installed with

dpkg -i storman_5.30-17510_amd64.deb.
apt-get install libstdc++5.
chmod u+x /usr/StorMan/arcconf.

Now try the following commands:


/usr/StorMan/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 AL
/usr/StorMan/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 Ad


If you have more than one RAID controller I assume the next one has number 2.

The rest is easy. My little RAID monitoring cron entry:
10 * * * * /usr/StorMan/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 Ad |grep "Controller Status" |grep Optimal >>/dev/null || /usr/StorMan/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 AL | /usr/bin/mail myemailaddress@example.com -s "Servername RAID problem!!!"

This has been tried on a Sun Fire X4170 and a Sun Fire X4450 running Debian Lenny.