Monitoring DL120G5 Sata Raid Harddisks

[wobbe]

Hi,

I have this DL120G5 running RHEL 5.1. It has an onboard Sata Raid controller that I use to create a raid one set of two disks. I installed the HP drivers and the HP Storage Manager but the Storage manager doesn't see the Sata controller and I supect that it just doesn't support this kind of controller.
But I really would like to know the status of my harddisks and preferably get an email when things go wrong. How do I realize such a sollution?

Kind regards

WB

[Goran Koruga]

Hello.

If you want S.M.A.R.T. monitoring then use smartmontools.

Regards,
Goran

[wobbe]

I installed the smartmon tools.
And looking at the smartd.conf file I see that an email will be sent to root if something is wrong.
Is there some way I can test if this is working?

[wobbe]

I've configured smartd.conf to sent a test mail but it will only work if I run smartd on my console it won't sent a mail when it runs at the background. Any though on that?

[Goran Koruga]

Hi.

How did you specify reporting in the config file?

By default it only sends mail once for each problem type. You can alter this using "-M type" option.

Regards,
Goran

[wobbe]

Below is my config.

/dev/sda -d ata -H -m root -M test -M exec /bin/mail

I get a mail when I run: smartd -d
But I dont get a mail when I restart the service: /etc/init.d/smartd restart

[wobbe]

Mmmm, looks like smartd.conf is overwritten everytime you restart the service??? Stange??

[wobbe]

Case of RTFM.
You need to remove the first line of the smartd.conf