On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:42 -0500, 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 This is my smartd.conf for monitoring drives on a 9550SX: /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,0 -H -m root /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,1 -H -m root /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,2 -H -m root /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,3 -H -m root Using smartctl is similar: # smartctl -Hd 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 It's straightforward to do testing with smartctl, but the above -H/--health output gives you some warning that things aren't right before the drive fails, especially the later lines of output (e.g. Current_Pending_Sector, Offline_Uncorrectable). I run it as a weekly cron job. Steve