Re: [CentOS] Smartd Warning in logwatch report

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], WAR

Re: [CentOS] Smartd Warning in logwatch report

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: > > which may be of some i

Re: [CentOS] Smartd Warning in logwatch report

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 logwatc

Re: [CentOS] Smartd Warning in logwatch report

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 t

Re: [CentOS] Smartd Warning in logwatch report

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: > END OF QUOTE > > The referenced webpages give me a 404. remember logwatch doesn't print everything, so if something isn't clear g

[CentOS] Smartd Warning in logwatch report

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, -

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

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 offl

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

On Friday 17 February 2012, Andrzej Szymański 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 moving the data

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

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 A

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

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 repor

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

> 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

[CentOS] smartd and smartctl

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 w

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

At Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:35:12 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list 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 > >>> acces

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

At Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:36:25 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list 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 something l

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

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 19

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

At Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:24:23 -0600 CentOS mailing list 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 data, _tha

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

>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... _

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

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 > ma

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

>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 me

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

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 E

Re: [CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

At Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:57:59 -0600 CentOS mailing list 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 number of >

[CentOS] smartd and palimpsest

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 inf

Re: [CentOS] SMARTD (?)

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

Re: [CentOS] SMARTD (?)

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:23 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > 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 vendor

Re: [CentOS] SMARTD (?)

> 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 "current

Re: [CentOS] SMARTD (?)

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 unr

Re: [CentOS] SMARTD (?)

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 se

[CentOS] SMARTD (?)

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 "o

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain 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 this is for

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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 y

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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? > A

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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 w

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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 smart for monitoring > > 3ware hardware. > > > > Do you have

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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

[CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

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 are

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware on centos5

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 pas

[CentOS] smartd and 3ware on centos5

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 thi

Re: [CentOS] smartd

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 sm

Re: [CentOS] smartd

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/

Re: [CentOS] smartd

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 fro

[CentOS] 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 Power

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive In

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 Techn

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 te

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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->DL>140>G3), tried that, I just reach the same "arena" "Download drivers and software - HP ProLian

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 temperature

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

> > /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 inc

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 s

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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. The

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 Co

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 Schä

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Interne

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

RE: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

> > /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

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 27

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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

[CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

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 /et