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 > > I run smart tests weekly in a staggered fashion during off hours on my 3ware arrays. Like this: /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,0 -H -l selftest -l error -o on -S on -s (O/../../1/18|S/../../2/22|L/../../3/01) -m root /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,1 -H -l selftest -l error -o on -S on -s (O/../../2/18|S/../../3/22|L/../../4/01) -m root I've found that the smart monitors are pretty good about giving me at least some warning about imminent drive failures when I do this. -- Benjamin Franz