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Is there any open source Dell H/w base RAID monitoring tool? Or any tool which monitors the hdd disks failure in RAID or power supply failure on Dell PE servers.

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I'm assuming you're talking about Linux. If that's the case, please check the Dell OpenManage Wiki at: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware

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Sure. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator.

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to clarify, it's not Open Source but it's freely available and works fantastically to monitor everything under the sun on your PE servers. – troyengel Dec 19 '10 at 16:58
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as an administrator of lots of dell hardware, i know how annoying the dell openmanage tools are... (fail randomly sometimes, are extremly bloated, ...)

luckily, for example, dell's "PERC" raid controllers used in poweredge servers are just rebranded lsi megaraid adapters, and you can use lsi's megacli in place of openmanage: (which is still closed source, but at least less annoying, or annoying in different ways ;) )

# omreport storage pdisk controller=0 | grep -i state # dell openmanage
State                     : Online
State                     : Online
# MegaCli -PDList -a0 |grep state    # lsi megacli
Firmware state: Online
Firmware state: Online

(have not verified if this is the correct version, should be the same for all adaptors tho': http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sas/megaraid_sas_8480e/#Miscellaneous )

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