On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:44:30AM -0300, Rodrigo Trevisaneli scribbled in "Monitoring SAS 6iR RAID status": > Hi, > > This morning a database running on a PE T105 with a SAS 6iR > was down, and after reboot I found the filesystem demaged. > > Running fsck fix this, and the /var/log/messages has a lot > of disk-related messages starting at 10:00 pm. The SAS6iR > utility show me RAID status degradaded and a fail status on disk 0. > > Disk 0 was removed and will be replaced. The server is running > with only disk 1, and my question is, is there a way to be > warned when a disk starting failing before the filesystem become > demaged? Any utility, that can read data from SAS 6iR and put > messages on console/syslog/email?
You can have a look at smartmontools, which is probably packaged for your distro of choice. You may have to play some games with other packages (sg3-utils in debian) so that you can actually see the real devices, rather than the /dev/sd* devices presented to you by the 6iR and the kernel, but you can use the combination to monitor the SMART state of the drives themselves, including pre-failure states. Cheers. Dameon. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
