lbolt Monitoring

[Scott Frye_1]

I was thinking about monitoring syslog for any lbolt messages. I'm wondering if "every" lbolt message is tied to a hardware failure? I don't want to create alarms if they are not needed.

Thanks!

Scott

[Pete Randall]

You could set up a cron job that greps for lbolt in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and emails you if it finds any. If you're getting a lot of them, they should definitely be looked into. They're not necessarily indicative of a failure but they shouldn't be completely ignore either.


Pete

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

Its definitely a good idea to monitor your syslog for lbolt error message because majority of the error are usually signalling a potential hardware failure.

Better safe then sorry.

[Steven E. Protter]

If you swap a hot swap disk, you will get an lbolt without any disk actually failing. This goes away next boot.

In general, lbolt requires action.

I have had complete disk failure without an lbolt message btw.

Attaching an lbolt detect script cron runs every night for us.

CHANGE the email address in this script if you use it.

SEP

[Scott Frye_1]

SEP,

I saw this script while reviewing some of my previous posts. This is what got my mind wondering about this.

If I use this script and don't change the emails, does that mean you will fix my issues as well ;o).

Thanks