[CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

Ray Van Dolson rayvd at bludgeon.org
Wed Feb 11 17:19:39 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17:09PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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.

On a somewhat related note.  I haven't yet looked into what 3ware does
on the SNMP side.  Does it include a MIB file?  Anyone generating traps
on bad disk events?

Not hard to set up your own OID to run a shell script to check disk
status, but traps are cooler. :)

Ray



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