Topic: Need help getting 3ware raid monitoring software working

[adamk]

I am setting up an SME server to use primarily as a network storage device.  I have 4 300GB hard drives and a 3ware 8506 RAID card.  The hard drives are configured in RAID5, and SME 7 pre1 loads the drivers for the 3ware card.  Everything works well with this setup.

I am, however, having a tough time to get the 3dm raid monitoring software to install/run correctly.  I have followed the directions in the 3ware manual, which are basically the same as section 3.3 of http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/3ware%206400

I answer all of the questions that it prompts me to.  The 3ware manual says that 3dm will start automatically after the install and after each reboot.  "Great!" I think.  I then go to my computer and try to see the software by entering my.servers.ip:979 in the web browser, but nothing.

Back to the server... I try to start 3dm by (per the manual):

/etc/rc.d/init.d/3dm start

but there is no 3dm executable script.  Following directions that came with the install file (which are different than the manual BTW), I make a directory /etc/rc.d/init.d/3dm/ and put in it 3dmd, 3w-xxxx.rc.redhat, and 3w-xxxx.rc.suse and chmod them.  Trying to run 3dmd and *.suse from there just throw errors and don't go.  

But 3w-xxxx.rc.redhat does run.  And with it I can log into the SME server from a different pc to view the array status.  However, the monitoring software dies after about 5 minutes.  I don't see any errors or anything at the command prompt on the server.  Just a refused connection, and if I try to stop it at the servers command prompt, it tells me that it is not running.

So I am fairly confused as to the correct procedure for making this thing work right.  Am I supposed to be using the 3w-xxxx.rc.redhat file as the 3dm monitoring software?  No where it says to, but it the only thing that (sort of) works for me.

[adamk]

I downloaded 3dm2 from the 3ware website, and followed the instructions from the 9500 series cards to install it.  3dm2 doesn't seem to crash out on me, so the problem is solved.

[percypark]

Spent a bit of time getting the raid monitor working on SME7 this morning - the install.3dm link in this howto

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/3ware%206400

is no longer valid so here's how I got it working:

Download the latest 3dm software from the 3ware site

http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp I've been using the 9500S as adamk did with no problems

unpack files into /tmp

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cd /tmp
chmod 755 install.3dm
./install.3dm --i


there's a series of questions to answer as part of the install process - I followed the original howto and stayed with port 979

then add the monitor to init.d:

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cp -f /tmp/3ware/3dm2.redhat /etc/init.d/dm
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/dm


then add monitoring to appropriate runlevels other than 7

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/sbin/chkconfig --add dm
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 dm on


then set up monitoring for runlevel 7

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ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc7.d/S92dm
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set dm service status enabled


finally do the reboot shuffle

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/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

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Monitoring should now be accessible from https://serverip:979
note that monitor requires an https connection.  If everything works you can delete the install files from /tmp

Any comments anyone? - not really familiar with SME so may need some corrections!