On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Tarik Soydan wrote: > Is there some assumption that somebody would initiate self tests? > > I think the assumption is simply that someone may have initiated self > tests in the past, and the results are still valid. [...] > I don't know disk utilities are available under Solaris. > Hopefully someone (more disk savvy them me) will answer this question.
I don't think it is very likely anyone has initiated self tests on x4500/x4540 systems. I tried smartctl, but evidently initiating self tests is not supported under Solaris. The smartmontools package under linux allows you to schedule self tests. While extended self tests can impact performance, short self tests don't really. It would be nice for a similar utility under Solaris to allow scheduling of different self test types, perhaps a short one daily and an extended one weekly or monthly during a low load period. That would definitely make the self test log analysis currently performed by fma a lot more useful. Perhaps an RFE is in order :)... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ fm-discuss mailing list fm-discuss@opensolaris.org
