Dell PowerEdge 1950 + Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy RAID Monitoring

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I finally setup a good RAID monitor on my machine; I’ll be able to sleep better at night now.  I thought I should share what I did.

  1. Install omreport for general hardware reporting.  Find comprehensive instructions here
  2. Test omreport by running omreport storage controller controller=0
  3. You’re mostly interested in the controller, virtual (RAID) disk, and physical disks
  4. Make sure you have a mail client setup like sendmail
  5. Setup a cron job by creating a file in /etc/cron.daily that contains one line: omreport storage controller controller=0 | mutt -s “RAID Monitoring Notification” youremail@domain.com
  6. Make the file executable with sudo chmod a+x <file>
  7. Start receiving a daily email with the omreport output

Here’s some information about my machine:

  • PERC5/i SATA RAID1 controller
  • 2 x 250GB SATA drives
  • 2 x Xeon processors
  • Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy)

I’m pretty happy with this monitor, because it’s simple and quick.  Now all I need to do is figure out how to monitor my redundant power supplies.  Shoot me a comment with questions.  I hope this helps!