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.