[CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

[Jerry Franz]

Jim Perrin wrote:
> I'm looking to do a bit more monitoring of my 3ware 9550 with smartd,
> and wanted to see what others were doing with smart for monitoring
> 3ware hardware.
>
> Do you have the smartd.conf configured to test, or simply monitor health status?
> Are you monitoring the drive as centos sees it (/dev/sdX) or are you
> using the 3ware /dev/twaX for monitoring?
>
> Opinions and discussions are welcome :-P
>
>   
I run smart tests weekly in a staggered fashion during off hours on my 
3ware arrays. Like this:

/dev/twa0 -d 3ware,0 -H -l selftest -l error -o on -S on -s 
(O/../../1/18|S/../../2/22|L/../../3/01) -m root
/dev/twa0 -d 3ware,1 -H -l selftest -l error -o on -S on -s 
(O/../../2/18|S/../../3/22|L/../../4/01) -m root

I've found that the smart monitors are pretty good about giving me at 
least some warning about imminent drive failures when I do this.

-- 
Benjamin Franz