wave_sailor
join:2001-04-23
Bloomingdale, NJ
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We had a catastrophic drive failure on a production LDAP master while I was out one week.
This was an HP/Compaq box of some sort with RAID 5 SCSI on RHEL 5.1. We tried in vane to get HP Insight Manager running on it, but cannot. HP Support is useless because they say the hardware, which is only two years old, is out of warranty.
Is there any other methods of monitoring drives such as tailing messages every few minutes to look for "drive ????"? Any other words to search on or other ideas to monitor drive status? |
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wave_sailor
join:2001-04-23
Bloomingdale, NJ
clubs: | I think I found an answer. I came across this blog »vertito.blogspot.com/2007/08/har···ctl.html |
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join:2000-12-01
Stone Mountain, GA
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Is this a hardware or software RAID?
Software RAID can be monitored via mdadm and /proc/mdstat
For hardware RAID, I'd look at the RAID card vendor for utilities.
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Cabal
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join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
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Smartd with mailed warnings, never leave home without it (except for drives it can't talk to through RAID controllers, but there should be monitoring tools for those as well).
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wave_sailor
join:2001-04-23
Bloomingdale, NJ
clubs:
| hmmm, it looks like it's reporting errors (hardware RAID):
smartctl -l error /dev/cciss/c0d0 -d cciss,0
My other boxes have Total Uncorrected Errors of 0. |
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