Pfsense on a HP Netserver LPr
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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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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 -
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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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 onlineNow 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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See this post to follow-up on the monitoring… http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5263.0.html
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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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Look http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5252.msg31671.html#msg31671
3 simple commands.
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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 onlineNow 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 amrstatThis 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 # -
Maybe your RAID controller is not supported by this program. How are labeled your disks?
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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 ? -
Give me the output of 'df'
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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/devBtw, 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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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/devYour RAID controller doesn't use the amr driver, so you can't use amrstat
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.
If you get smartmontools, how will you get notified of a failed disk?
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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/devYour RAID controller doesn't use the amr driver, so you can't use amrstat
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.
If you get smartmontools, how will you get notified of a failed disk?
Ow damn, just me… Brain Fart ? ;)
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I think I found how to do it, using an Expect script. I haven't tried it yet 'cause I don't have the pfsense machine close, but I will as soon as I can boot it up.
Here is the script:
http://bash.cyberciti.biz/security/sshlogin.exp.php
This script is executed from a remote host, on which expect is installed. I'm just beginning with expect, so I hard-coded all my values in the script. I know this exposes the firewall root password in a file, but I think I can live with that until I find a better way to be alerted when a drive fails.
#! /bin/bash RETVAL=0 /home/user/expect_amrstat > /home/user/expect_degraded grep Degraded /home/user/expect_degraded >dev/null RETVAL=$? if [ "$RETVAL" = 0 ]; then echo "Array degraded on firewall" |mail -s "Array Degraded" me@mydomain.com fiThe script /home/user/expect_amrstat simply runs amrstat on the firewall and outputs the result.