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Monitoring Dell SAS 5/iR RAID with nagios by using check_by_ssh plugin

the dell raid adapter would show up on ‘lspci’ like this

root@remoteserver:/usr/src# lspci
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev 09)
01:00.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 6700/6702PXH I/OxAPIC Interrupt Controller A (rev 09)
02:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)

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Step-by-Step Guide to Configure Hardware RAID on DELL servers with Screenshots

1. Launch PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration Utility.

Insert the two new disk drives onto the empty slots available on the server and reboot.  During the system startup, press Ctrl+M to launch the PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller BIOS Configuration Utility.

DELL Configuration Utility - Ctrl+M to launch

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