[SunHELP] monitoring for failed hardware

[Will Mc Donald]

Presumably he'll be able to get SNMP MIBs for those arrays as well?

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kovalev, Ivan" <IKovalev at ibes.com>

> You should have some utilities of that sort from RAID vendor. For example,
> for A1000 (and may be for yours as well) it is /usr/lib/osa/bin/rmscript .
> You can check /var/osa/rmlog.log or run healthck -a ( in case of A1000).
> prtdiag would probably give you more info then the 'wrench' light, you
might
> opt for checking this too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austad, Jay [mailto:austad at marketwatch.com]
>
> What is the best way to monitor for failed hardware (disks, etc...)?
>
> Is there something I can run or a script I can write that will email me
when
> I have a piece of hardware fail?  If I lose a disk from one of my mirrored
> or RAID-5 volumes, I'm not going to notice except for degraded
performance,
> which may take me a day or two to notice on some systems.  Sending the
> interns to look at the "wrench" light every day would probably be a waste
of
> time too.  :)
>
> The particular hardware that I'm concerned about is an Ultra Enterprise
3500
> with 3 A5000/5100 series drive arrays.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jay Austad