Description

This connector provides information about physical disks and volumes for LSI Logic SAS RAID controllers through the lsiutil utility.

Connector file name: MS_HW_LSIUtilUNIX.hdf

This connector is superseded by:

• MS_HW_LSIsas2ircu.hdf
• MS_HW_Director52ServeRAIDLinux.hdf

Target

Typical platform: Any system with LSI lsiutil

Operating systems: Linux, Oracle Solaris

Prerequisites

Leverages: lsiutil

Technology and protocols: System Commands

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the command below:

• lsiutil

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the command listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above command to be run as root by the patrol account:

patrol ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: lsiutil

Connector Activation Criteria

The LSI Logic - LsiUtil - RAID connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• Operating System is Linux or Oracle Solaris
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: for CONTROLLERID in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do lsiutil -p$CONTROLLERID -a 1,2,0 21; done
  • Output contains: ^PhysDisk [0-9] (regex)