On Sunday 27 November 2005 21:10, Bob Lewkowitz wrote: > ello list, I see through the archives that some people here use 3ware > RAID controllers with Centos. I have picked up two 9500S-4LP > controllers for future servers. I was hoping that if some people could > please share their 3ware monitoring scripts with the rest of the > group. What I am really hoping to do is have some setup where a cron > job runs scripts to test each of the drives connected to the > controller to make sure they are not going to break any time soon and > then check the health of the array itself. I am used to using smartd > for basic SCSI and IDE drives but not connected to this adapter. Any > good souls out there want to spread the knowledge? If you're running 4 you don't need to write your own scripts - smartd can monitor the drives behind a 3ware controller. Peter.