[geeks] mpt-statusd fun

[Lionel Peterson]

You should have pulled the card while the server was down... But you knew
that, and probably chose not to for very good reasons.

Can you not disable the SCSI card under Linux? I can't advise how, Linux not
my area of expertise.

Lionel

> On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Got a wee silliness with Debian 7 on our Dell PowerEdge T610.
>
> The system has 2 LSI Raid Cards in, one SCSI and one SAS. The SCSI card was
> provided by Dell to run and external ULT tape drive which bit the dust a
> couple of years ago. It no longer has anything attached. Debian installed
> mpt-statusd for RAID monitoring (or I might have installed it, I forget)
> which is a useful tool for reporting RAID issues on the SAS RAID
> controller. However because both cards are compatible mpt-statusd monitors
> both. Since rebooting the T610 (we relocated all our servers a couple of
> days ago) mpt-statusd keep carping (emailing my user every 2 hours) about
> the SCSI card having no drives on it. I solved the issue before but (like a
> moron) didn't write the solution down.
>
> In short, does anyone know how to persuade mpt-statusd to ignore the SCSI
> controller and only monitor the SAS controller? Everywhere online I
> Google'd suggests removing mpt-statusd entirely which is obviously stupid
> in this case as it's monitoring the system's RAID drives.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>
> Mark Benson
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