About ----- The mpt-status software is a query tool to access the running configuration and status of LSI SCSI HBAs. This is a completely rewritten version of the original mpt-status-1.0 tool written by Matt Braithwaite. mpt-status allows you to monitor the health and status of your RAID setup. Currently supported and tested HBAs are: LSI 1030 SCSI RAID storage controller LSI SAS1064 SCSI RAID storage controller LSI SAS1068 SCSI RAID storage controller LSI SAS 3442-R SCSI RAID storage controller Since the tool is using the MPI (message passing interface) changes are high that the basic information regarding RAID status will be available for all LSI based controllers. Just give it a try and report back. Requirements ------------ You should have mptbase and mptctl loaded or compiled into the kernel. If you are to compile mpt-status by yourself, make sure you have the kernel source installed, or else it will fail. This deficiency will hopefully be addressed soon. You need 'mailx' and 'sendmail' to send email notifications. Reported working hardware configuration --------------------------------------- Sun Fire X4100 Sun Fire X4200 Sun Fire V20z Sun Fire V40z Dell PE2600 Intel Server with SE7520BD2S boards HP ProLiant DL320 G4 IBM eServer BladeCenter LS20 Where can I get this fine piece of software? -------------------------------------------- Homepage of maintained version: http://www.drugphish.ch/~ratz/mpt-status/ The original version of this tool is not maintained anymore by its author. He was kind enough to put a link to the current mpt-status home. Thanks, Matt. Distro related support ---------------------- To my avail following distributions have mpt-status included: Distro | Status | URL --------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------------- Debian | OK | http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/mpt-status --------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------------- Suse | NOK (old) | http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/mpt-status.html | NOK (old) | http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/enterpriseserver/SP3/ia64/mpt-status.html --------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------------- Support for following distros can be found through google and rpm searches (status unknown): PLD Turbolinux I have provided spec (for RPM) files for OpenSuse and Red Hat, however they are mostly untested. Have a look into the contrib sub directory. How can I compile, install or uninstall mpt-status? --------------------------------------------------- Read doc/INSTALL for further information on building mpt-status. Basically you should be fine invoking make A simple (as root) make install should install the binary to $PREFIX/sbin, and can be uninstalled as follows: make uninstall What does this software provide you? ------------------------------------ For now it should be improved regarding compilation on different systems, also different kernels. But the output has changed as well. Example: SR2400:~# ./mpt-status -i 1 ioc0 vol_id 1 type IM, 2 phy, 68 GB, state OPTIMAL, flags ENABLED ioc0 phy 0 scsi_id 1 SEAGATE ST373207LC 0003, 68 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE ioc0 phy 1 scsi_id 3 SEAGATE ST373207LC 0003, 68 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE [root@redhatAS-3-U4-X86_64 mpt-status-1.1.5-new]# ./mpt-status You seem to have no SCSI disks attached to your HBA or you have them on a different scsi_id. To get your SCSI id, run: mpt-status -p [root@redhatAS-3-U4-X86_64 mpt-status-1.1.5-new]# ./mpt-status -p Found SCSI id=2, use ''mpt-status -i 2`` to get more information. [root@redhatAS-3-U4-X86_64 mpt-status-1.1.5-new]# ./mpt-status -i 2 ioc0 vol_id 2 type IM, 2 phy, 67 GB, state OPTIMAL, flags ENABLED ioc0 phy 1 scsi_id 4 FUJITSU MAV2073RCSUN72G 0301, 68 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE ioc0 phy 0 scsi_id 3 FUJITSU MAV2073RCSUN72G 0301, 68 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE [root@redhatAS-3-U4-X86_64 mpt-status-1.1.5-new]# ./mpt-status -i 2 -s vol_id 2 OPTIMAL phys_id 1 ONLINE phys_id 0 ONLINE A new style output has made it into the sources, however due to backwards compatibility reasons it's not on per default. You can enable the new style output by invoking mpt-status as follows: mpt-status --newstyle There is also a debug mode since the mpt-status-1.2.0 release. Hardware, Software and Distribution Compatibility ------------------------------------------------- The mpt-status software is known and reported to compile and work on following Linux distributions: SuSE : 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, SLES8, SLES9, SLES10 Redhat : 7.3, 9.0, RHEL3, RHEL4, FC1, FC2, FC3, FC4, FC5 Debian : all so far Ubuntu : edgy Gentoo : 2005.x ulibc-based : all Kernels: Linux: 2.4.x, 2.6.x Architectures: i386 x86_64 List of Hardware configuration ------------------------------ This list should eventually be exported somewhere so decision makers and hardware buyers can easily find out if their hardware is a) supported and b) can be monitored. If you have successfully running mpt-status on a platform not mentioned below, please send me following output: dmesg -s 1000000 (best after having rebooted your machine) lspci -v dmidecode