Comments on: How do I get Adaptec Storage Manager to work with Ubuntu 7.10?

By: William Pechter

William Pechter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:35:23 +0000

FYI — it works fine with Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.10 as well. I installed asm_linux_v4.30-16038.rpm to work with my 2410 and it fired right up following the above information.

By: Jesse Jarzynka

Jesse Jarzynka — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:42:33 +0000

That should say “AIC 7902″

By: Jesse Jarzynka

Jesse Jarzynka — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:38:20 +0000

Phil, I just noticed something. A lot of my servers are using 2230 controller which is fine, but some are identified simply as “AIC 7920″ which I think is just the ASIC model. Would I have to shut the servers down to look at the actual card to find the model? Or is there a version of ASM that should work based on that ASIC? I don’t see ASM as listing the ASIC anywhere. Thanks again! -Jesse

By: Jesse Jarzynka

Jesse Jarzynka — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:52:50 +0000

Phil, thanks again for your very helpful posts. I wasn’t about to click a verify just to to see if I could schedule it there just in case it started right away! Now that I know, that is very helpful.

Kind of a clunky GUI, but good to have working on Debian finally! Thanks again.

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:11:16 +0000

Hi Jesse, thanks!

If you right click on the machine name in the ASM GUI -> agent actions, click on the task tab, you can modify view or delete (apart from testing the spares) any scheduled tasks you have created.

The tasks themselves are created by right clicking on the logical drive in ASM and choosing an option like verify / verify with fix / expand. On these operations you have the option to schedule it to occur at regular intervals (or in the case of expand for some convenient time in the future).

For info, quite a few customers like to switch on the background consistency check which isn’t actually a task but runs a continuous background process which issues a medium verify command to every block on all drives in an array including spares guaranteeing to complete within the defined number of days (user changeable but defaults to 30).

Some customers like to schedule a verify with fix task to run at weekends which will check for errors and should be able to correct most disk medium errors - hopefully before a disk fails and you are trying to rebuild an array.

It is also possible to start a task from the CLI utility arcconf though this doesn’t support scheduling.

[root@uklab-cern5 ~]# arcconf task

Usage: TASK START LOGICALDRIVE [noprompt]
Usage: TASK STOP LOGICALDRIVE

Usage: TASK START DEVICE [noprompt]
Usage: TASK STOP DEVICE
======================================================

Performs a task on a logical device or a physical devices.

Task : Task to be started or performed.

LogicalDrive# : logical device ID on which task is to be performed
Logical Tasks : verify_fix (Verify with fix)
verify
clear

Channel# ID# : The Channel and ID of the physical device on which task is to be
performed. Optionally ALL indicates all ready drives for initialize
task only (ex. ARCCONF TASK START 1 DEVICE ALL INITIALIZE).
Physical Tasks : verify_fix
verify
clear
initialize
secureerase
[root@uklab-cern5 ~]#

thanks, Phil

By: Jesse Jarzynka

Jesse Jarzynka — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:44:52 +0000

Phil, thanks so much for the response. One last question I had were tasks. I see a default task called “Test all spare disks for errors”, but I don’t see any way to add tasks or even a way to remove that task, just modify the recurrence or name. Is that just the way it is? Thanks again, Jesse.

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:32:25 +0000

Hi Jesse, once configured, email alerts, SNMP traps are sent from the agent so there is no need for the GUI to be connected for these to be issued. On the second point, its a nuisance - I wanted to do this myself, but the configuration file which stores the details of SMTP gateway, recipients etc is binary (.ser file) and I haven’t found a way to edit it manually so unfortunately for the initial config and if you need to change the settings you would need to connect from a GUI.

thanks, Phil

By: Jesse Jarzynka

Jesse Jarzynka — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:51:06 +0000

I have a question about e-mail notifications and arcconf. If you set up email notifications through a remote java interface, will the e-mail be sent out even if you arent connected remotely? I would assume so. And also, is it possible to set up email notifications through arcconf, or only through the java GUI? Thanks, Jesse

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:11:15 +0000

Hi Tim, rpm-qR StorMan gives

/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl
libX11.so.6()(64bit)
libXext.so.6()(64bit)
libc.so.6()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)
libgcc_s.so.1()(64bit)
libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)(64bit)
libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3)(64bit)
libm.so.6()(64bit)
perl(strict)
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1

I think most of this would be present. If you don’t have the graphical desktop you may need to install with the –nodeps option. In this case you would probably install the GUI on another machine and remotely manage your FC11 system.

Hope this is a help, thanks, Phil

By: Tim S

Tim S — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:20:19 +0000

Phil, I am going to install http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/raid/storage_manager/asm_linux_x64_v6_10_18359_rpm.htm

on my Fedora 11 system.

Before i run rpm -ivh ….
is there a list of dependencies that you have that I can check first?

Thanks in advance.