How about tuning SELinux? it's not so hard.
Eero 2017-09-05 15:20 GMT+03:00 Larry Fahnoe <[email protected]>: > Thanks Ernst, I didn't realize that smartctl could peek behind the raid > controllers, obviously I didn't read the man page! I'd noticed the smartd > messages to the effect "not capable of SMART Health Status check" but I > didn't dig deeper, live and learn. Interestingly in my current case with a > failed drive, the smartctl -H and -a are both showing the overall-health > self-assessment as PASSED for all of the drives--maybe it would have > alerted prior to the drive failing. > > At this point I've got OMSA installed on both systems and have begun to > work on getting an NMS installed. nagios with nagios-selinux from EPEL are > not working reliably with selinux, so I've begun to look into Icinga2 which > looks to be able to work with NAGIOS plugins & hopefully check_openmanage. > > Even if I do get OMSA and an NMS working, this endeavor has encouraged me > to learn about megacli and smartctl & more learning is always a good thing! > > --Larry > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:51 AM, Ernst Pijper <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> One possibility is to use smartctl to check the health of the individual >> drives: >> >> smartctl -H -d megaraid,<N> /dev/sda >> >> where <N> is the device id returned by megacli: MegaCli64 -Pdlist -aAll >> | grep "Device Id”. You can use the same device name /dev/sda >> for all device ids. The command only considers the device id. >> >> Output will be something like: >> >> # smartctl -H -d megaraid,5 /dev/sda >> smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-327.28.3.el7.x86_64] >> (local build) >> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, >> www.smartmontools.org >> >> /dev/sda [megaraid_disk_05] [SAT]: Device open changed type from >> 'megaraid,5' to 'sat+megaraid,5' >> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === >> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED >> Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check. >> >> Replace -H with -a for a more detailed analysis of the disk status. >> >> Don’t expect a 100% guarantee that smartctl will correctly predict >> failures. >> >> Ernst >> >> On 4 sep. 2017, at 14:07, Larry Fahnoe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the thoughts and feedback! So far, it looks as though the >> conventional wisdom is to bite the bullet and install OMSA on the servers >> and then set up an NMS like Nagios. I've had troubles with OMSA in the past >> and I don't currently have an NMS running since my environments are rather >> small. Perhaps OMSA has improved, I will investigate it once again as well >> as reconsider Nagios and check_openmanage as the combination certainly >> appears to do all that I would want and more. >> >> Are there any other opinions about lightweight, maintained health check >> monitoring utilities, particularly monitoring drives owned by a PERC 6/i? >> >> --Larry >> >> -- >> Larry Fahnoe, Fahnoe Technology Consulting, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> >> Minneapolis, Minnesota www.FahnoeTech.com >> <http://www.fahnoetech.com/> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >> >> >> > > > -- > Larry Fahnoe, Fahnoe Technology Consulting, [email protected] > Minneapolis, Minnesota www.FahnoeTech.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > >
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