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Benefits of Directly Querying 3WARE / AMCC Controllers
· Use the software to assess RAID health remotely, and not be dependent on a BIOS-based program, or a utility that
only runs on the host console. Since the output can easily be parsed and scripted, the administrator can implement
a phone-home system based on specific parameters. Obviously this can't be done from a BIOS because the host
isn't even running an O/S. Limitations in vendor supplied tools prevent you from creating customized actions
based on health.
· The software can tell you serial numbers of disk drives, the controller, and firmware/driver revisions. SMARTMon-
UX frees you from having to take a system down to gather patch/BIOS/driver information
· If you are in a high-security area, use the -z3d command as part of a polling daemon that reports that all of the
disks behind a RAID controller are online and have not been taken. We have customers who have "national
security" implications that use the software to make sure that nobody has stolen a disk drive. Remember if you
have RAID5, then somebody could take a disk drive, and the host would run normally on the degraded LUN. Our
software detects disk drive removals behind RAID controllers as not only does it report differences in devices, but it
gives you the unique serial numbers .
[root@frank smartmon]# ./smartmon-ux -I+ /dev/sg9
SMARTMon-ux [Release 1.30, Build 03-DEC-2005] - Copyright 2001-2005 SANtools, Inc. http://www.SANtools.com
Discovered 3ware Logical Disk 00 S/N " " on /dev/sg9 (SMART unsupported)(76283 MB)
Inquiry Text Page Data - ANSI defined fields
Device Type: disk
Peripheral Qualifier: Connected to this LUN
Removable Device: NO
ANSI Version: 0 (Not ANSI compliant)
ISO/IEC Version: 0
ECMA Version: 0
Vendor Identification: 3ware
Product Identification: Logical Disk 00
Firmware Revision: 1.00
Async event reporting: (AERC) NO
Supports 16-bit wide addresses: NO
Supports 32-bit wide addresses: NO
Supports ACKQ/REQQ handshaking: NO
Terminate task supported: NO
Response data format: 2
Relative addressing supported: NO
Supports request/ACK data transfer: NO
Normal ACA Supported: NO
32-bit parallel supported: NO
16-bit parallel supported: NO
Synchronous commands supported: NO
Linked commands supported: NO
Command queuing supported: YES
SAF-TE Enclosure services available: NO
VS bit (byte #6/bit #5 set): NO
VS bit (byte #7/bit #0 set): NO
Total Capacity (In Bytes): 199988609024 <- Added in 1.30
RAID Controller Information:
Manufacturer: 3ware (AMCC)
Serial Number: F19002A4430575
Model: 9500S-4LP
PCB Revision: Rev 019
P-chip Version: 1.50
A-chip Version: 3.20 <- Added in 1.30
Firmware Version: FE9X 2.04.00.003
BIOS Version: BE9X 2.03.01.047
Monitor Version: BL9X 2.02.00.001
JBOD Policy: Enabled
Cache Policy when Degraded: Enabled <- Added in 1.30
AV Mode: Disabled <- Added in 1.30
Battery Backup Unit: Not Present
Battery Backup Unit Status: N/A
JBOD Policy: N/A
Number of physical disks: 2
Number of logical disks: 1
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