Server Agents error following hard drive upgrades

[Yasser Hussein]

Hi all,

I recently upgraded my HP Proliant ML350 G2 with three new hard drives (146Gb each in RAID 5 array). Now when I reboot I always get the following error in the system log:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Server Agents
Event ID: 1123
System Information Agent: Health: Post Errors were detected. One or more Power-On-Self-Test errors were detected during server startup.
[SNMP TRAP: 6027 in CPQHLTH.MIB]

I have looked in the Integrated Management Log viewer and there are no errors in there. The ACU also reports each disk drive in the system as ok so I'm baffled as to why this error is coming up. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Igor Karasik · Accepted solution]

Most likely when you open ACU you see message like
"Background parity initialization is currently queued or in progress on logical drive. If background initialization is queued, it will start when I/O is performed on the drive. When background initialization is complete, the performance of the logical drive will improve."
You can see this message during server boot (on SmartArray initialization stage) as well and it cause "Post Errors were detected" message in system log. It will go away when Background parity initialization of your RAID-5 will be completed.

[Yasser Hussein]

Hi Igor,

Many thanks for the prompt reply. You are 100% correct - I do see this message pop up in the ACU. I had a slight feeling that this might be related to the POST error but wasn't sure. Once this popup message disappears in the ACU I will reboot the server and see if that clears the POST error and report back. Many thanks again for the fast response - much appreciated :)

Yasser

[Yasser Hussein]

Just to update the thread - I rebooted the server last night and the error message has gone! So the bakcground parity initialisation was the cause of the error. Spot on Igor - many thanks. 10 well-deserved point coming your way ;)