Ubuntu Server on HP Proliant - managing RAID

As part of the disk-based backup project, my Bacula Director is going on an Ubunutu 10.04 LTS server on HP Proliant hardware. All well and good, but this is my first Ubuntu Server deployment on HP hardware. Under Dell, I'm used to using the MegaRAID CLI tools to monitor and manage the RAID controller, but was stuck trying to find the equivalent for Ubuntu.

The answer is to use HP's ProLiant Support Pack which offers a bunch of CLI tools. The one I was interested in here was hpacucli

To install (as root, obviously):

1. wget http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/bootstrap.sh
2. ./bootstrap.sh ProLiantSupportPack (this adds the HP repo to apt's sources)
3. wget http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/ProLiantSupportPack/GPG-KEY-ProLiantSupportPack
4. apt-key add GPG-KEY-ProLiantSupportPack
5. aptitude update
6. apt-get install hpacucli

Like any good CLI program, it is finicky to learn, and intuitive thereafter :-) Here's the thing I wanted to do:

root@rm-bac-1:~# hpacucli 
HP Array Configuration Utility CLI 8.50-6.0
Detecting Controllers...Done.
Type "help" for a list of supported commands.
Type "exit" to close the console.

==> ctrl slot=0 logicaldrive all show detail

Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded)

   array A

      Logical Drive: 1
         Size: 136.7 GB
         Fault Tolerance: RAID 1
         Heads: 255
         Sectors Per Track: 32
         Cylinders: 35132
         Stripe Size: 128 KB
         Status: OK
         Unique Identifier: 600508B1001031303434393834300300
         Disk Name: /dev/cciss/c0d0
         Mount Points: / 131.1 GB
         OS Status: LOCKED
         Logical Drive Label: A01197DF5001438010449840590B
         Mirror Group 0:
            physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
         Mirror Group 1:
            physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 146 GB, OK)

Cool! There are other bits I'll want - I see one of the packages offers SNMP monitoring, which naturally, I'm going to use so Nagios can keep an eye on this server.

A list of the 7 packages in the Proliant Support Pack is in this file, but here's an abridged listing:

Package: hpacucli
Description: HP Command Line Array Configuration Utility
 The HP Command Line Array Configuration Utility is the disk
 array configuration program for Array Controllers.

Package: cpqacuxe
Description: HP Array Configuration Utility
 The HP Array Configuration Utility is the web-based disk array
 configuration program for Array Controllers.

Package: hpsmh
Description: HP System Management Homepage
 Provides HTTP infrastructure for HP Agent & Utility system packages.
Homepage: http://hp.com/go/proliantlinux

Package: hp-smh-templates
Description: HP System Management Homepage Templates
 This package contains the System Management Homepage Templates for all
 hp Proliant systems with ASM, ILO, & ILO2 embedded management asics.

Package: hp-snmp-agents
Description: Insight Management SNMP Agents for HP ProLiant Systems
 This package contains the SNMP server, storage, and nic agents for all
 hp Proliant systems with ASM, ILO, & ILO2 embedded management asics.

Package: hponcfg
Description: RILOE II/iLo online configuration utility
 Hponcfg is a command line utility that can be used to configure iLO/RILOE II
 from within the operating system without requiring a reboot of the server.
Homepage: http://hp.com/go/proliantlinux

Package: hp-health
Description: hp System Health Application and Command line Utility Package
 This package contains the System Health Monitor for all hp Proliant systems
 with ASM, ILO, & ILO2 embedded management asics.  Also contained are the
 command line utilities.