Comments on: Monitoring LSI Logic RAID controllers

By: iknight

iknight — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:52:39 +0000

After lots of searching John, i found a copy of this tar ball at

http://sisyphus.ru/en/srpm/Branch4/mpt-status/sources

And it compiled up ok on centos (had to alter some paths in the mpt-status.h file though)

By: John

John — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:26:51 +0000

The source to this has vanished, ‘drugphish.com’ now redirects to a generic hosting page. sourceforge points to the same site.

By: Web Hosting

Web Hosting — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:13:38 +0000

Small tip if you are on Debian, you can install the mpt-status package with:

apt-get install mpt-status

By: Frands

Frands — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:51:05 +0000

This can be used as nagios check works like a charm.

#!/bin/sh

STATUS=`/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/mpt-status -s`

if [ `/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/mpt-status |grep ONLINE | wc -l` == "2" ]; then

echo “Array OK: $STATUS”
exit 0

else

echo “Array ERROR: $STATUS”
exit 2

By: daveg

daveg — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:13:36 +0000

That output from mpt-status -s looks like its perfect low hanging fruit to get made into a nagios check plugin :-)

By: Eric Wood

Eric Wood — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:30:10 +0000

Solved.

I added “modprobe mptctl” at bootup according to these instructions:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kernel-modules-persistant.html

rebooted the server and mpt-status as well as Dell’s SSM gui software works.

By: Eric Wood

Eric Wood — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:39:05 +0000

Got mpt-status from:
http://www.drugphish.ch/~ratz/mpt-status/

Compile it Philon’s message above but I can’t get it to run with a Dell SAS/5iR card which has the SAS1068 chip. This 1068 chip is supported by mpt-status.

Any ideas?

# ./mpt-status
open /dev/mptctl: No such device
Are you sure your controller is supported by mptlinux?
Make sure mptctl is loaded into the kernel

# lsmod |grep mpt
mptsas 31049 2
mptscsih 24897 1 mptsas
mptbase 56929 2 mptsas,mptscsih
scsi_transport_sas 30529 1 mptsas
scsi_mod 132685 6 sg,libata,mptsas,mptscsih,scsi_transport_sas,sd_mod

# ls -l /dev/mptctl
crw-r–r– 1 root root 10, 220 May 29 13:23 /dev/mptctl

By: dmnd

dmnd — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:30:56 +0000

Tnx man! i’ve been looking for this quite some time! :)

By: Philon

Philon — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:25:13 +0000

Hey there,

matty, thanks for the SPEC, I found your daily script and installed it. Nice thing!

And as another note to pgienger, as I also had some problems while compiling mpt-status… Get the kernel sources, see here “http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source”. mpi_type.h is then located in “drivers/message/fusion/”. For the compiler.h error I edited the mpt-status.h and hard-coded the compiler.h.

and finally:
[root@bart ~]# mpt-status
ioc0 vol_id 0 type IM, 2 phy, 68 GB, state OPTIMAL, flags ENABLED
ioc0 phy 0 scsi_id 0 IBM-ESXS CBR073C32410ESFN DFQD, 68 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE
ioc0 phy 1 scsi_id 1 IBM-ESXS CBR073C32410ESFN DFQD, 68 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE

regards

By: pgienger

pgienger — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:06:36 +0000

Did you have to do anything special in the way of installing packages to get the mpt-status source to build? I’ve been trying recently on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS from both the base tarball and spec, but I keep running into missing headers (for example lsi/mpi_type.h). The best indications I’ve found is that these might have been removed from the kernel tree.