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

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

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 >

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

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

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

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

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