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Home » Blog » Hardware » Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on openSUSE

Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on openSUSE

02/10/2013 by Myles Gray 3 Comments

Centrally managing your storage is nice – especially when you’ve just built your own SANs (or such). I created a synchronous replicating SAN cluster using LSI MegaRAID 9270-8i cards in 2x Dell R720XD chassis built on openSUSE 12.3 (more on that in another article soon).

We are migrating from 2x Dell MD3000i to these beasts built on a pure-cli OS. Some people like GUIs and that’s okay – so for day-to-day admin, email reporting on problems and basic configuration and tasks LSI offer (free) MegaRAID Storage Manager. It works much in the same way as Dell’s MD Storage Manager that we currently use for the MD3000i but (obviously) without the ability to create iSCSI LUNs etc as they are managed by the OS, not the RAID card.

So, to get rolling we need to log into openSUSE, and sudo bash your way in there.

We need to create a temp directory, download LSI MSM for Linux (x64) into it, extract it and install:

mkdir temp
cd temp/
wget "http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20Common%20Files/13.08.04.01_Linux(64)_MSM.tar.gz"
tar zxvf 13.08.04.01_Linux(64)_MSM.tar.gz
cd disk/

We need to install net-snmp as a prerequisite:

zypper install net-snmp

Then go ahead and install MSM server agent (the component that reports back to the management client):

./install.csh -d

See below for complete trigger reference:

Usage : install.sh [-option]
The options are :
              a
                The Complete Installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) 
              c
                The Client components only program of MSM
              s
               The StandAlone component of MSM
              l
               The Local component of MSM
              d
               The Server component of MSM
              au
               The upgrade only option for Complete MSM
              cu
               The upgrade only option for Client only MSM
              su
               The upgrade only option for Standalone MSM
              lu
               The upgrade only option for Local MSM
              du
               The upgrade only option for Server MSM

If all is well you’ll see this:

./install.csh -d

....
Checking for any Old Version
No Old Version Found
Continuing with installation
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Installing....
Updating / installing...
   1:Lib_Utils2-1.00-05               ################################# [100%]
Installing  MegaRAID_Storage_Manager-13.08.04-01
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Installing....
Updating / installing...
   1:MegaRAID_Storage_Manager-13.08.04################################# [100%]
/
/
/
Starting Framework: 
Installing sas_ir_snmp-13.08-0401
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:sas_ir_snmp-13.08-0401           ################################# [100%]
Starting snmpd
redirecting to systemctl  restart snmpd
Registering Service lsi_mrdsnmpd
lsi_mrdsnmpd              0:off  1:off  2:on   3:on   4:on   5:on   6:off
redirecting to systemctl  stop lsi_mrdsnmpd
Starting LSI SNMP Agent
redirecting to systemctl  start lsi_mrdsnmpd

Let’s install the MSM Management GUI on our Windows/Linux x86/x64 box, just run through the installer, this time you just need client installed.

Open up MegaRAID Storage Manager and click Configure Host, change the radio button to be Display all systems in the network of local server and press Save Settings. It will then scan your local network for hosts:

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Click the host and log in with your root account:

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All the metrics, visuals and nice fancy views you could ever desire, along with the ability to manage and rebuild arrays, configure volume groups and all the stuff listed here. Enjoy!

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Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure Tagged With: openSUSE

About Myles Gray

Hi! I'm Myles, and I'm a Dev Advocate at VMware. Focused primarily on content generation, product enablement and feedback from customers and field to engineering.

Comments

  1. Gumby says

    13/10/2013 at 19:55

    Hi there, just wanted to let you know that your link to the MSM file no longer works. It now returns an html page

    Reply
  2. Myles Gray says

    14/10/2013 at 10:44

    Yes I just noticed this myself – seems there is no “direct download” for MSM – best way I found to do it was goto the page in your browser, accept the EULA then download the file, copy the link that it is downloading from and use that in your `wget`.

    Reply
  3. Deano says

    11/06/2014 at 03:02

    very helpful, I have followed your blog post, and got LSI Storage manager on my windows box to manage raid on my SUSE box.

    Thanks

    Reply

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