====== Intel Raid Web Console 3 / LSI Storage Authority Software on Ubuntu / Debian ======
Intel calls their rebranded LSI Storage Authority Software simply Raid Web Console 3, as if it was a newer version of the previous Raid Web Console 2, aka LSI MegaRAID Storage Manger MSM, but as a matter of fact it is so much more. Finally the Raid **WEB** console is web based, Web Console 2 was a pretty ugly java gui. 

Unfortunately though, they still only support SLES and RHEL and certainly not Ubuntu or Debian, so here is how you can install the Raid Web Consoel 3 or LSI Storage Authority Software on an Ubuntu (16.04 at the time of this writing) machine: 

===== Install Intel Raid Web Console 3 in Ubuntu =====
  - Download Raid Web Console 3 from http://downloadcenter.intel.com, search for "Raid Web Console 3" and download the latest version 
  - unzip on your ubuntu machine 
  - cd to the extracted directory 
  - run whatever commands you see here as root, or add sudo if you really like typing :)
  - <code>apt install alien
alien --scripts *.rpm
dpkg -i *.deb
mkdir -p /usr/local/var
ln -s /var/log /usr/local/var/log
sed -e 's/#!\/bin\/sh/#!\/bin\/bash/' RunRPM.sh | sed -e 's/install_rpms$//' > RunDEB.sh
chmod 755 RunDEB.sh
echo "standalone" > /opt/lsi/LSIStorageAuthority/installtype
./RunDEB.sh
</code>
  - accept default ports
  - surf to ''http://yourserver:2463''
optionally, to secure your server from external access to the raid web console: 
<code>
sed -i 's/        listen       \([0-9]\+\) default_server;/        listen       127.0.0.1:\1 default_server;/' /opt/lsi/LSIStorageAuthority/server/conf/nginx.conf
</code>
  - take some other measures to lmimit access to port 9000 which seems to be some kind of backend which is listening on 0.0.0.0:9000, for example block access via iptables: <code>
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp ! -s 127.0.0.1 --dport 9000 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp ! -s 127.0.0.1 --dport 427 -j DROP
apt-get install iptables-persistent
netfilter-persistent save
netfilter-persistent reload
</code>