I updated the machine that I use for a web/email server last night to 5.9, and I
have this in the logwatch report this morning:
QUOTE:
- Smartd Begin
Warnings:
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], WARNING: There are known problems with these
drives,
Frank Cox wrote:
I updated the machine that I use for a web/email server last night to 5.9,
and I
have this in the logwatch report this morning:
QUOTE:
snip
END OF QUOTE
The referenced webpages give me a 404.
remember logwatch doesn't print everything, so if something isn't clear
go
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:42:51 +0100
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
remember logwatch doesn't print everything, so if something isn't clear
go to the logs and read them. It might make a lot more sense.
/var/log/messages doesn't appear to tell me any more than the logwatch
report, and neither of
Frank Cox wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:42:51 +0100
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
remember logwatch doesn't print everything, so if something isn't clear
go to the logs and read them. It might make a lot more sense.
/var/log/messages doesn't appear to tell me any more than the logwatch
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:54:44 -0500
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I did a google search on the drive no, and was struck by the serious
dearth of websites offering it for sale. Then I came across the thread at:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php/t-266301.html
which may be of some
On 18/01/13 16:40, Frank Cox wrote:
I updated the machine that I use for a web/email server last night to 5.9,
and I
have this in the logwatch report this morning:
QUOTE:
- Smartd Begin
Warnings:
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], WARNING:
A few weeks ago, one of my servers started complaining, via smartd, that
one drive had one unreadable sector. I umounted it, and ran an fsck -c,
then remounted it. Error didn't go away. Now, what's really annoying is
that I've gotten back to it today, and it's reporting the problem, as it
has for
A few weeks ago, one of my servers started complaining, via smartd, that
one drive had one unreadable sector. I umounted it, and ran an fsck -c,
then remounted it. Error didn't go away. Now, what's really annoying is
that I've gotten back to it today, and it's reporting the problem, as it
Mike Burger wrote:
A few weeks ago, one of my servers started complaining, via smartd, that
one drive had one unreadable sector. I umounted it, and ran an fsck -c,
then remounted it. Error didn't go away. Now, what's really annoying is
that I've gotten back to it today, and it's reporting the
FWIW, on some of my workstations, when I have gotten the sector pending
messages, I have been able to take the drive out and run the
manufacturer's diagnostics on it (in my case, Seatools), and that fixed
some things and I haven't had any issues since.
---
Mike VanHorn
Senior Computer Systems
W dniu 2012-02-17 21:25, m.r...@5-cent.us pisze:
Mike Burger wrote:
Ok, but my thinking was, first, that after the fsck, the system wouldn't
try to write to the bad sector, thus not provoking smart. The more
annoying thing is that I don't understand why smartctl doesn't give the
same info as
Mike VanHorn wrote:
FWIW, on some of my workstations, when I have gotten the sector pending
messages, I have been able to take the drive out and run the
manufacturer's diagnostics on it (in my case, Seatools), and that fixed
some things and I haven't had any issues since.
Well, since the
On Friday 17 February 2012, Andrzej Szymański szym...@agh.edu.pl
wrote:
As the location and contents of this sector are quite hard to find,
the simplest, but the most troublesome way of solving the problem is
moving all data away from this disk, writing the whole surface with
zeros (dd) and
On Friday 17 February 2012, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA
_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 2536
-
# 2 Short offline
At Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:24:23 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:05:47 +
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I think you misunderstood the first reply: smartd, as in the init script is
a
means to alert root of pending issues, _it_ doesn't present the
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:11:58 -0400
Robert Heller wrote:
The disk's *firmware* updated itself.
...
Appearently, palimpsest does some of what smartctl does: accesses the
SMART data on the drive. This is completely independent of smartd.
Smartd is a daemon that runs in the background and
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
accessed or something like that). Modern disks are a long, long way
from the simple MFM drives of the 1970s
At Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:36:25 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
accessed or
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
*snip*
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
accessed or something like that). Modern disks are a long, long way
from the simple MFM drives of
At Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:35:12 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
*snip*
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
I notice that the smartd service is not running by default on a new
installation. But palimpsest seems to get updated statistics every so often as
when I check the statistics on a drive it says last updated some number of
minutes ago.
So if smartd isn't running, where does palimpsest get its
At Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:57:59 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
I notice that the smartd service is not running by default on a new
installation. But palimpsest seems to get updated statistics every so often as
when I check the statistics on a drive it says last updated some
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:42:46 -0400
Robert Heller wrote:
Almost all modern disk are S.M.A.R.T capable. What this means is that
various information about the disk, mostly relating to its health can be
monitored. This includes things like sector errors. If smartd is
running root will get
As smartd isn't running in the default Centos configuration, where does
palimpsest get its information? Is it a self-contained program that doesn't
require smartd or is something else happening behind the scenes?
I think you misunderstood the first reply: smartd, as in the init script is a
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:05:47 +
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I think you misunderstood the first reply: smartd, as in the init script is a
means to alert root of pending issues, _it_ doesn't present the data, _that_
init script simply checks it and reports it. You don't need it running to
make
Which still doesn't answer my question. Perhaps I'm wording it poorly -- I'll
try again:
Perhaps palimpsest runs smartctl and queries the device itself? Perhaps it
borrowed
code from the project and runs the query itself? I don't have any servers with
GUI's,
couldn't tell you...
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was
running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and
ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce the server.
And SMARTD reports the sectors as currently
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was
running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and
ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce the server.
And SMARTD reports the sectors as currently
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:23 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
snip
I recommend to replace that disc ASAP. When they start having to
reallocate more sectors, they are in a pending complete failure state.
I second that. I had a SATA drive that showed a few bad sectors in 2008
sometime. I got the
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:27 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was
running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and
ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce
Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was
running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and
ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce the server.
And SMARTD reports the sectors as currently unreadable (pending)
sectors, and
On 02/25/2010 02:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was
running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and
ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce the server.
And SMARTD reports the
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, 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
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 at 9:42pm, 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
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17:09PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 at 9:42pm, 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
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
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote:
Have you thought about tying tw_cli into nagios? That's one of my
round-tuit projects. I'm sure there are already plugins for it, and it
seems like you may get better info.
I actually did think about doing this, but
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
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:42 -0500, 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?
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:52 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:46:24AM -0500, S.Tindall wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:42 -0500, 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
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Aleksandar Milivojevic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...snip...
The configuration file for smartd looks like this:
/dev/sda -d 3ware,0 -a -m root -T permissive
/dev/sda -d 3ware,1 -a -m root -T permissive
I do remember smartd and tw_cli working in the past.
Hi,
I've CentOS5 box with 3ware RAID controller in it. I can't get the
tw_cli command line tool to work, and smartd also barks on me. The
tw_cli simply doesn't see the controller, no errors logged anywhere.
When starting smartd, it is much more verbose. I'm getting a bunch of
messages like
since am using Harware RAID controller, am gonna disable it... and use the
monitoring tools of dell
Thanks
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:50 AM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mad Unix wrote:
last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS 146G
I found the smartd
last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS 146G I
found the smartd running , I did not request such daemon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pons]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Aug 25 08:27:30
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:39:39 +0200
Mad Unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can i disable it
You can disable it with chkconfig or through the GUI services menu.
do i really need it on my system
It depends on your requirements. Read up a bit on what it does and make your
own decision from
Mad Unix wrote:
last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS
146G I found the smartd running , I did not request such daemon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pons]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
...
won't compile without docbook. But I think it won't work with the
controller, anyway. I can get a reading with mpt-status -i 1 for the
RAID status (on both HP and Dell machines), but this doesn't include SMART
(SMART as in Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting
Mogens Kjaer wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:30:11 +0200:
Why are you interested in the SMART information?
Curiousity ;-) I'm not familiar with RAID controllers, so I don't know yet
what they might do or not. Thanks for the info!
Kai
--
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Get your web at Conactive
Rainer Duffner wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:46:58 +0200:
It's know for consuming some CPU.
A-h-a.
But taking a quick look on the support site (HP.com - Support/Drivers-
Servers-Proliant-DL140G3),
tried that, I just reach the same arena Download drivers and software
- HP ProLiant DL140 G3
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
...
Unfortunately, that didn't change anything. hpasmd is running, but
hpasmcli just hangs when I try it out.
I run CentOS 5 on our old ML 370 G3 machines.
BigBrother is watching the machines, using /sbin/hplog from hpasm
to query the state of the fans, powersupplies and
Mogens Kjaer wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:14:16 +0200:
BigBrother is watching the machines, using /sbin/hplog from hpasm
to query the state of the fans, powersupplies and temperatures.
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, that hangs like hpasmcli is hanging. I
may be missing something (kernel
Rainer Duffner wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:03 +0200:
For HP, you should get the data if you install the Insight Manager
agents.
I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an-
hour searching on the site I finally found an hpasm package that seems
to be it. They
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an-
hour searching on the site I finally found an hpasm package that seems
to be it. They make it really hard to find it as it doesn't appear when
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rainer Duffner wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:03 +0200:
For HP, you should get the data if you install the Insight Manager
agents.
I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an-
hour searching
/dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access it
with hdparm.
Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it
impossible to smart monitor thru a RAID controller?
You probably will want to install the HP Proliant Support Pack as it will
include the
Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700:
Or maybe it makes the machine feel good
Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that hpasm
didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut down
the daemon (with all of its agents) the core
Am 29.07.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl:
Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700:
Or maybe it makes the machine feel good
Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that
hpasm
didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut
down
the
It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on
several machines with two different controllers and on all I get this when
starting up smartd:
Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Opened configuration file
/etc/smartd.conf
Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Configuration file
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on
several machines with two different controllers and on all I get this when
starting up smartd:
/dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I
Am 27.07.2008 um 14:51 schrieb Kai Schaetzl:
It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on
several machines with two different controllers and on all I get
this when
starting up smartd:
Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Opened configuration file
/etc/smartd.conf
Jul
/dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access it
with hdparm.
Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it
impossible to smart monitor thru a RAID controller?
Kai
Kai
Shouldn't there be another layer ?
Is this a real hardware raid
Jim Perrin wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:07:19 -0400:
This depends on the raid controller.
Ah, I see. I listed them in the reply to Rainer.
Kai
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Rainer Duffner wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:39:34 +0200:
What controller would that be?
It's Dell SAS 6iR and HP 8 Port HBA Host Controller (as they call it).
Both are LSI 1068-based, not sure if exactly the same chip.
Kai
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Robert - elists wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:35:24 -0700:
/dev/ida/c0d0
/dev/cciss/c0d0
I looked around, but none of these :-( /dev/disk points to pci ids and then
to /dev/sda etc. It's a PCI-based controller that HP calls HP 8 Port HBA
Controller or so. In a DL140 G3.
Kai
--
Kai
Am 27.07.2008 um 20:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl:
Robert - elists wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:35:24 -0700:
/dev/ida/c0d0
/dev/cciss/c0d0
I looked around, but none of these :-( /dev/disk points to pci ids
and then
to /dev/sda etc. It's a PCI-based controller that HP calls HP 8
Port HBA
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