ibm ds4700 / logical drive not on preferred path

a ibm ds4700 with four exp 810 units lost it`s preferred path setting for one controller /some logical drives. consequences : there were some machines with non-redundant paths connected to the san – these machines lost their mounted luns.(datastore for a mail machine, datastore for a fileserver with 14TB…) first i changed on the fibre channel switch fabric the zoneing to the healthy controller and remounted the drives to get the server systems back on production. after some research i seems to be clear that the solution is just only to map the logical drives back to the preferred controller/path … *sigh you can change the controller settings for the logical drives under production scenario. learned: do *all* fc/san connections redundant – don`t save money on your fibrechannel san design … 🙂

message on the storage manager / recovery guru : Logical Drive Not On Preferred Path

icinga

building a large scaled monitoring system for a customer with icinga 1.4.0 + pnp4nagios 0.6 (bulk mode with npcd), db logging. it will monitor very different stuff …. from servers to network, from esx(i) to linux machines, from firewalls to printers … good to see that all the needed software comes from the debian stable repositories (non-free). once again debian FTW !

http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/start

https://www.icinga.org/

infrastructure rebuild

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new patchpanels, 10gbe enabled

ibm ds4700, 50tb, fc, dual pathing, raid6 enabled, >2tb partitions enabled, ibm ts3200, 2 * lto 4 fc library

netscreen/junipter ssg550m 20 * gb ports cu, 8 * sftp ports

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