On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:52 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > 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 No, I scheduled the selftest through the 3ware controller itself, but it's been so long since I set it up, that I would have to get out the manual to remember how to do it. # /usr/local/sbin/tw_cli show selftest Selftest Schedule for Controller /c2 ======================================================== Slot Day Hour UDMA SMART -------------------------------------------------------- 1 Sun 12:00am enabled enabled 2 Mon 12:00am enabled enabled 3 Tue 12:00am enabled enabled 4 Wed 12:00am enabled enabled 5 Thu 12:00am enabled enabled 6 Fri 12:00am enabled enabled 7 Sat 12:00am enabled enabled Steve