mpt-status is a query tool for accessing the running configuration and status of LSI SCSI HBAs. It is a heavily modified version of the original mpt-status-1.0 tool written by Matt Braithwaite. It allows you to monitor the health and status of your RAID setup. Currently supported and tested HBAs are the LSI 1030 SCSI RAID storage controller and LSI SAS1064 SCSI RAID storage controller. Since the tool uses the MPI (message passing interface), chances are high that the basic information regarding RAID status will be available for all LSI-based controllers.
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About
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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
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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.
Reported working hardware configuration
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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?
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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