About
The mpt-status software is a query tool to access the running configuration and status of LSI SCSI HBAs. This is a heavily modified 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
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.
Where can I get this fine piece of software?
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
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?
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?
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
Hardware, Software and Distribution Compatibility
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, SLES8, SLES9 Redhat : 7.3, 9.0, RHEL3, RHEL4, FC1, FC2, FC3, FC4 Debian : all so far Gentoo : 2005.x ulibc-based : all
- Kernels
- Linux: 2.4.x, 2.6.x
- Architectures
- i386 x86_64 (currently broken for some systems, EMT64 works) ultra sparc (only compilation)
List of Hardware configuration
This list should eventually be exported somewhere so decision makers and hardware buyers can easily find out if their hardware is a) supported and b) can be monitored.
If you have successfully running mpt-status on a platform not mentioned below, please send me following output:
dmesg -s 1000000 (best after having rebooted your machine)
lspci -v
dmidecode
The current list of working hardware configuration is:
[TBW]