geom(4)/gmirror(4) automatic device DEGRADED status demotion (WAS:Re: gmirror HD failure detection)

2007-02-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: For a while our strategy was to use NRPE2+ a custom nagios check (check_raid_fbsdgmirror -- ugly-as-hell Perl, but which I can make available to the public). However, this morning a drive in a Dell PE1850 (one without a PERC4 controller)

geom(4)/gmirror(4) automatic device DEGRADED status promotion (WAS:Re: gmirror HD failure detection)

2007-02-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: For a while our strategy was to use NRPE2+a custom nagios check (check_raid_fbsdgmirror -- ugly as hell Perl but which I can make available to the public). However, this morning a drive in a Dell PE1850 (one without a PERC4 controller) started erroring. It has just regular old (bad)

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: Dave wrote: Hi, I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual drives. If this does work i'd like to know about it as i

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:15, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Dave wrote: Hi, I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-21 Thread Robin Becker
John Nielsen wrote: .. Use both approaches since they tell you different things which just happen some of the time to coincide. If you happen to be one of the smart admins who actually reviews the output of the periodic scripts, then simply adding daily_status_gmirror_enable=YES

gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Robin Becker
After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent failure of one of the disks? Do I use something like smartctl in a

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/20/06, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent failure of one of

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Dave
, but am not sure which one. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:02 PM Subject: Re: gmirror HD failure detection On 9/20/06, Robin Becker

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent failure of one of the disks? Do I use

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Robin Becker
Dave wrote: Hi, I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual drives. If this does work i'd like to know about it as i believe i might have one