1. Install mpt-status and LSIUtils install mpt-status over aptitude - be sure you are logged in as root: aptitude update aptitude install mpt-status to install LSIUtils you have to download it by yourself, to extract the package, to rebuild the tool with make and to copy the runable binary to you bin location (here and in follwing sections I will use a temporary directory /temp for all the downloads: mkdir /temp cd /temp wget ftp://ftp.lsil.com/HostAdapterDrivers/linux/lsiutil/lsiutil.tar.gz or wget http://repo.tvujweb.cz/dell/mpt/lsiutil.tar.gz tar xvfz lsiutil.tar.gz cd lsiutil rm lsiutil make cp lsiutil/lsiutil /usr/bin/ now try the LSIUtils and mpt-status lsiutil mpt-status mpt-status -i 0 clean up: rm /temp/* -R 2. add following to your /etc/rc.local lsiutil -s; sleep 15; /etc/init.d/dataeng enablesnmp; /etc/init.d/snmpd restart; ## all before line containing "exit 0"