Installing and fine-tuning XenServer 6.1 on server with Adaptec 6805 RAID controller

• For XenServer 6.1 to recognize logical array, first of all we have to download precompiled driver package (aacraid_linux_min_drivers.tgz) from adaptec site (link), then burn it to CD and press F9 when installation prompts to. 
• After installation completion, it's time to install Adaptec Storage Manager agent on XenServer and configure it to connect to central location with Windows-based GUI. Download it from here. Choose the latest version for 32-bit Linux (yes, 32-bit). It's a mystery for me why 64-bit Xen doesn't want to install 64-bit ASM, but it's true.

At my Linux shell: scp ~/Downloads/StorMan.rpm root@10.10.X.X:/tmp

At my XenServer shell: rpm --install ./StorMan.rpm

• At this point ASM agent should be installed on XenServer. Now we should open appropriate TCP and UDP ports in XenServer firewall to allow connections from ASM installed on central Windows management station. ASM requires the following ports to be opened for successful connection to be established (from the User Guide):

8003 (TCP)

34570 to 34580 (TCP)

34570 (UDP)

34577 to 34580 (UDP) 

•  After opening ports, we should be able to connect to Xen's ASM agent from management station by using login "root" and appropriate password.
• We can now configure any parameters of our RAID array remotely, but something still doesn't work. And it's alerting system. Agent can't send e-mail notification, SNMP traps, etc. To make this work, we should modify /etc/hosts file and add the following lines:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localhost     localhost

10.10.X.X   xenserver.YOURDOMAIN.COM xenserver

10.10.X.X     asm.YOURDOMAIN.COM          asm

• where "xenserver" is...yes, it's XenServer :D and asm.YOURDOMAIN.COM is IP address and FQDN of you management station. Actually, I guess that the last line is not necessary, but it's present in my configuration, so I don't want to alter working system.