[CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 at 9:42pm, 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

Have you thought about tying tw_cli into nagios?  That's one of my 
round-tuit projects.  I'm sure there are already plugins for it, and it 
seems like you may get better info.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF