From: William F. P. <po...@ho...> - 2005-12-14 21:15:52
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Bruce, smartd is a great way to monitor the health of our disk drives in our 60-node cluster (where we know they will fail with regularity). Thank you! I have two brief questions: 1. We are using SATA (not ATA) drives behind a 8003 3ware controller. Why does smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twe0 work, smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/sdc fail? The documentation implies that one could use either syntax. FYI, # ls -alF /dev/sdc brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 32 Dec 13 16:42 /dev/sdc # ls -alF /dev/twe0 crw------- 1 root root 254, 0 Dec 13 16:43 /dev/twe0 2. We would like to verify that our /etc/smartd.conf will correctly send us a mail message in the event of error. # cat /etc/smartd.conf /dev/hda -H -m root@localhost.localdomain /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,0 -H -m root@localhost.localdomain /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,1 -H -m root@localhost.localdomain Is there anyway to cause smartd.conf to mail a diagnostic report, aside from inserting a bad disk into the system? We want to verify that our email forwarding from the compute nodes on our cluster is set up correctly, and want smartd to send us something, even if the disks are healthy. Thanks for a great service! Will Polik ================================ Dr. William F. Polik Hofma Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Hope College 35 East 12th Street Holland, MI 49422-9000 USA po...@ho... http://www.chem.hope.edu/~polik tel: (616) 395-7639 fax: (616) 395-7118 ================================ |