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    • jahonixJ
      jahonix
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      If your HP netserver is going to live in a DataCenter, you'll probably like the improved reliability and speed of a small SCSI HD. The latter helps when/if you use squid on that machine. A SCSI HD always is a good investment in reliability.

      On the other hand the small IDE interface naturally IS an IDE port. "All" you need is an adequate adapter but I don't know if something like that is readily available or would have to be built by yourself.

      Chris

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        ugob
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        @jahonix:

        If your HP netserver is going to live in a DataCenter, you'll probably like the improved reliability and speed of a small SCSI HD. The latter helps when/if you use squid on that machine. A SCSI HD always is a good investment in reliability.

        But does PfSense supports software RAID?  I think a LiveCD + floppy is more reliable (at least for running) than a single disk.  The only RAID controller I have here is an HP NetRAID 1-M.  Will it work?
        @jahonix:

        On the other hand the small IDE interface naturally IS an IDE port. "All" you need is an adequate adapter but I don't know if something like that is readily available or would have to be built by yourself.

        Hmmm, and even if I find a way to get an IDE-to-flash to work there, I still have the problem of the physical location of this thing… it is a 2U server made for only 2 SCSI HDD...

        Thanks,

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          Perry
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          don't know about raid ( you can always backup the config file ). but you will be better of with 2 pc and carp cluster imo.

          /Perry
          doc.pfsense.org

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            ugob
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            Hmmm, it is a bit expensive to set 2 servers in a datacenter, so I'd rather have only this 2U server, with the most reliable config possible with this kind of hardware.

            Thanks,

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              Matts
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              How about the Dual CPU ? I have installed it also on a Dual CPU machine and see only one CPU.

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                ugob
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                I haven't checked really, but I think it sees only 1 CPU.  I don't really care if it sees only one though.

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                  Matts
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                  @ugob:

                  I haven't checked really, but I think it sees only 1 CPU.  I don't really care if it sees only one though.

                  No I don't care if it sees one, but I want to be sure it uses both.

                  This is what I see:

                  kern.smp.cpus: 1

                  So if it sees one extra CPU for SMP or at total one.

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                    ugob
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                    @ugob:

                    But does PfSense supports software RAID?  I think a LiveCD + floppy is more reliable (at least for running) than a single disk.  The only RAID controller I have here is an HP NetRAID 1-M.  Will it work?

                    I just tested and it works with th HP NetRAID 1-M.  I'll get 2 small SCSI disks and I'll use that.

                    Anyone knows how to monitor for failed drives this way?  If it was on linux, I'd check /proc, but I don't know about freebsd.

                    Thanks!

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                      Matts
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                      @ugob:

                      @ugob:

                      But does PfSense supports software RAID?  I think a LiveCD + floppy is more reliable (at least for running) than a single disk.  The only RAID controller I have here is an HP NetRAID 1-M.  Will it work?

                      I just tested and it works with th HP NetRAID 1-M.  I'll get 2 small SCSI disks and I'll use that.

                      Anyone knows how to monitor for failed drives this way?  If it was on linux, I'd check /proc, but I don't know about freebsd.

                      Thanks!

                      Yes for Linux I know it too, but I will check it.

                      Were you able to monitor the controller for failing disks ?

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                        ugob
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                        @Matts:

                        @ugob:

                        I haven't checked really, but I think it sees only 1 CPU.  I don't really care if it sees only one though.

                        No I don't care if it sees one, but I want to be sure it uses both.

                        This is what I see:

                        kern.smp.cpus: 1

                        So if it sees one extra CPU for SMP or at total one.

                        Mine sees and uses both.

                        In top, I can sometimes see process using CPU1 when I hold the spacebar.

                        From dmesg:```
                        FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
                        cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  1
                        cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  0

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                          ugob
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                          @Matts:

                          @ugob:

                          @ugob:

                          But does PfSense supports software RAID?  I think a LiveCD + floppy is more reliable (at least for running) than a single disk.  The only RAID controller I have here is an HP NetRAID 1-M.  Will it work?

                          I just tested and it works with th HP NetRAID 1-M.  I'll get 2 small SCSI disks and I'll use that.

                          Anyone knows how to monitor for failed drives this way?  If it was on linux, I'd check /proc, but I don't know about freebsd.

                          Thanks!

                          Yes for Linux I know it too, but I will check it.

                          Were you able to monitor the controller for failing disks ?

                          No, all I found is this:

                          amrstat is available as a package, but since my pfsense is not connected to the 'net right now, I can't try.

                          However, since there is no mta on pfsense, another system would have to run a script via ssh and send an e-mail if one drive is failing.

                          It would be easier using snmp.

                          Please let me know if you find anything.

                          http://www.unixadmintalk.com/f41/monitoring-raid-arrays-51889/

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                            ugob
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                            I found something:

                            # pkg_add -r http://ftp.id.freebsd.org/ports/packages/All/amrstat-20070216.tbz
                            # rehash
                            # amrstat
                            Logical volume 0:       degraded (16.96 GB, RAID1)
                            Physical drive 0:0      rebuild
                            Physical drive 0:1      online
                            
                            

                            Now you can use a remote server to execute amrstat remotely via ssh and grep for 'degraded'.  If grep returns 0, send an e-mail.

                            Ugo

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                              ugob
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                              See this post to follow-up on the monitoring… http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5263.0.html

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                                Matts
                                last edited by

                                I have installed the AMRSTAT Port, but I can;t get it working.

                                FreeBSD is actually quite new for me :) If it was Linux.. it was more simple ;)

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                                  ugob
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                                  Look http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5252.msg31671.html#msg31671

                                  3 simple commands.

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                                    Matts
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                                    @ugob:

                                    I found something:

                                    # pkg_add -r http://ftp.id.freebsd.org/ports/packages/All/amrstat-20070216.tbz
                                    # rehash
                                    # amrstat
                                    Logical volume 0:       degraded (16.96 GB, RAID1)
                                    Physical drive 0:0      rebuild
                                    Physical drive 0:1      online
                                    
                                    

                                    Now you can use a remote server to execute amrstat remotely via ssh and grep for 'degraded'.  If grep returns 0, send an e-mail.

                                    Ugo

                                    Hi,

                                    I already installed it using this:

                                    pkg_add -r amrstat
                                    

                                    This is what I get because I already installed the latest version I thought

                                    # pkg_add -r http://ftp.id.freebsd.org/ports/packages/All/amrstat-20070216.tbz
                                    Fetching http://ftp.id.freebsd.org/ports/packages/All/amrstat-20070216.tbz... Done.
                                    pkg_add: package 'amrstat-20070216' or its older version already installed
                                    #
                                    
                                    

                                    And I get this now:

                                    
                                    # amrstat
                                    open: No such file or directory
                                    # where amrstat
                                    /usr/local/sbin/amrstat
                                    # /usr/local/sbin/amrstat
                                    open: No such file or directory
                                    # /usr/local/sbin/amrstat --help
                                    amrstat: illegal option -- -
                                    usage: /usr/local/sbin/amrstat [-a num] [-b] [-c ctlr|-f dev] [-g] [-l vol]
                                                    [-p drive|-s bus[:target]] [-t usec] [-v]
                                    
                                            -a num          number of retries
                                            -b              battery status
                                            -c ctrl         controller ID
                                            -f dev          device path
                                            -g              print global parameters
                                            -l vol          logical volume ID
                                            -p drive        physical drive ID
                                            -s bus[:target] SCSI bus (and optinal target)
                                            -t usec         sleep time between retries
                                            -v              verbose output
                                    #
                                    
                                    
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                                      ugob
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                                      Maybe your RAID controller is not supported by this program.  How are labeled your disks?

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                                        Matts
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                                        @ugob:

                                        Maybe your RAID controller is not supported by this program.

                                        I will check it, I thought it was.

                                        
                                        How are labeled your disks?
                                        
                                        What do you mean by this ?
                                        
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                                          ugob
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                                          Give me the output of 'df'

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                                            Matts
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                                            @ugob:

                                            Give me the output of 'df'

                                            /dev/idad0s1a  13133670 75896 12007082    1%    /
                                            devfs                1    1        0  100%    /dev
                                            /dev/md0          1710    26    1548    2%    /var/run
                                            devfs                1    1        0  100%    /var/dhcpd/dev

                                            Btw, I was thinking of using smartmontools. After installing this I see that libcam* is missing.

                                            Or we have to get a full install tree, what not should be it.

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