Comments on: ServeRAID – Fun with GUI-Tools

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:42:58 +0000

It’s apparently only an issue on 2.6.20+.
The ipssend I have (latest) returns:
# ipssend getconfig 1

Found 0 IBM ServeRAID controller(s).
Command aborted.
Verify that the drivers and hardware are properly installed.

Kernel module CONFIG_SCSI_IPS is compiled in. RAID functions fine, just no command-line monitoring. 32-bit OS on an IBM x330.

By: Dub-Ah-U

Dub-Ah-U — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:52:42 +0000

Works flawlessly! You can access it from the gui if you move the gui window out of the way and right click and open a terminal window. Once booted from the CD, the executable is in /usr/RaidMan/flash/

By: Philip Hofstetter

Philip Hofstetter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:03:30 +0000

the ipssend I’m running here works perfectly with a 2.6 kernel (using the ips kernel module to access the raid array).

Is it possible that your ipssend is outdated? Or of the wrong architecture (64bit vs. 32bit)?

Philip

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:44:25 +0000

ipssend (v771) apparently does NOT work on 2.6.x kernels (at least not on my Debian setup). It would be great to find ANY non GUI cmd line utils that might monitor ServeRAID status.

By: chris lo

chris lo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:30:14 +0000

glad to read this page, i have one old system was installed w/o ipssend. newer version was not compatible.

great to search your page from google.

By: Robert Brockway

Robert Brockway — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:51:52 +0000

The ipssend utility is alive and well for Linux and is available on the ServeRAID Support CD.

CLI (command line) isn’t as hard as many claim.
In the old days of computing completely non-technical users managed to use CLI tools without any major problems.

An experienced CLI user will be generally much faster than an experienced GUI user.

Rob