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Intel calls their rebranded LSI Storage Authority Software simply Raid Web Console 3, as if it was a newer version of the previous Raid Web Console 2, aka LSI MegaRAID Storage Manger MSM, but as a matter of fact it is so much more.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:

1. Download Raid Web Console 3 from http://downloadcenter.intel.com, search for “Raid Web Console 3” and download the latest version
2. unzip on your ubuntu machine
3. cd to the extracted directory
4. run the following as root:

   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

5. accept default ports
6. surf to http://yourserver:2463

optionally, to secure your server from external access to the raid web console:

sed -i 's/        listen       \([0-9]\+\) default_server;/        listen       127.0.0.1:\1 default_server;/' /opt/lsi/LSIStorageAuthority/server/conf/nginx.conf

1. 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:

   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