Re: [foxboro] How can I get the status of a RAID drive on a 51D?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:59:00PM -0400, Roger Smith wrote:
> 
> I believe that RAID 1 is mirrored drives.  The other common usage is RAID 5
> that includes striping and parity.  Sorry I can't help with your problem
> though. 
> 

Ture enough. However in this case thier is a significant difference in what
Foxboro calls "mirrored drives", and what they call "RAID 1". Mirrored
drives are provided in Sun enclosures, and are connected to 2 SCSI
controlers in teh Sun Box. The mirrorig is done using software. This is Sun
provided software, that gets a Foxboro supplied "wrapper" script called
dft. By using the Sun provided software one can check the status of both of
the drives, and generate email/alarms.paging when one fails.

What Foxboro provided on our latest project, however was an external "RAD
1" box (yest that really mirrored). However it is conected to the SUN box
using SCSI cables (not certain at the moment if there just 1 or 2). So, I'm
looking for the vendor supplied software that will let me query this
external box for it's disk statuses, in order to generate alarms/emails
when one of these fails, rather than waiting for the 2nd one to fail!

You would think Foxboro would hanlde this as a system alarms, but it
appears that they don not.



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