On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:46:24AM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: > 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. > Do you ever run the long/short tests? These are mentioned in the smartd.conf 3ware examples. I've never enabled them. Ray