I've done 2 things for my servers. 1) Setup my iDRAC to send me emails on failures of drives.
2) Add the following to root's crontab. Then I have logcheck configured to send me log messages and the failure will show up there. # check RAID disk consistency 0 0 1 * * /opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omconfig storage vdisk action=checkconsistency controller=0 vdisk=0 | grep -v "successful" On 9/8/16 9:23 AM, Robert Jacobson wrote: > > > > I recently learned that Dell recommends that we run periodically (e.g. > monthly) consistency checks on all RAID volumes. > > > > I have implemented these checks via cron on Linux and scheduled tasks > on Windows. Here's an example completion message on Linux (CentOS 6) > (from /var/log/messages): > > > > 2016-09-08T10:27:46+00:00 wfep1 Server_Administrator: 13396 2085 - > Storage Service Virtual disk Check Consistency completed: Virtual > Disk 1 (fepdata) Controller 0 (PERC H710 Mini) > > > > I get a lot of these messages. What I'd like to do is filter out all > the good messages and only see the messages when the check fails. > Unfortunately I have no idea what this failure message might look > like. The above doesn't even say it completed with no errors or anything! > > > > On Windows these errors appear to be more explicit -- or rather, there > are different Event IDs for the different results. Reference: > http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/177/p/19463854/20172547 > > > > > Reproduced here: > > * Event ID: 2085 > o Text for email: Consistency check completed with no errors > * Event ID: 2076 > o Text for email: Consistency check failed to complete > * Event ID: 2341 > o Text for email: Consistency check completed with corrections > * Event ID: 2397 > o Text for email: Consistency check completed, but encountered > uncorrectable errors > > So, what do those exit states look like on Linux? I suppose I have > one equivalent to Event ID 2085 already. What about the others? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge -- Jon Schewe Research Scientist Raytheon BBN Technologies 5775 Wayzata Blvd, Ste 630 Saint Louis Park, MN, 55416 Office: 952-545-5720
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