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Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

This used to monitor a hard drive's state and reliability. It tries to predict failures and warns the user when a disk is degrading.

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nagios: alternatives to SMART disk checking?

I'm attempting to repurpose some older Dell PE 29xx machines. These have PERC RAID controllers so the SMART testing isn't working. Is there an SNMP alternative or do I need to start slogging through OpenManage?
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Is my HDD falling?

I tested my HDD with command: smartctl -t long /dev/sda I checked status of test with command: smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda This is the output: smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-2.6.18-348.3.1.el5] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by…
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HP Proliant Smart Array Controller P800 Battery replacement

I have a proliant server which requires a cache battery replacement. Can you please advise what are the implications if this is not replaced over time. many thanks
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How To Change Dell Bios Settings Remotely?

I recently noticed at a clients that their Dell laptops appear to have SMART disabled in bios by default. I noticed this while swapping out a disk on a desktop which had failed without any warning.. wonder why we didn't get anything. :-) Anyone know…
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Why can't I recover a RAID1 disk which apparently has no errors?

For several years now we run a software RAID1 on a old Gentoo box with a custom Linux 2.6.31. The RAID consists of 2 harddisk with 4 partitions each. In the last years it happend about 3-4 times that a disk was thrown out of the array. But each time…
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Simulate a SMART error on a drive for test purposes?

We are monitoring the disks on our servers using Smartmontools and Nagios with the check_smartmon or another Nagios plugin. It appears to work, as there are no errors. But how do I know if it is truly working? It would be great to simulate an error…
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Does regularly running smartctl negatively affect disks?

I have many servers in different data centers. Lately I had some disk failures that I probably could've detected beforehand, so I started automatically running smartctl -t periodically on each disk. I'm short testing disks twice a week and long…
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Does smartd launch selftests if "-s" option is not provided?

man smartd.conf states that -s option specifies the time for running disk tests. Are they run if this option is not provided? I mean does smartd try to figure out the appropriate time on his own or simply does not trigger tests?
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RAID1 rebuild fails due to disk errors

Quick info: Dell R410 with 2x500GB drives in RAID1 on H700 Adapter Recently one of drives in RAID1 array on server failed, lets call it Drive 0. RAID controller marked it as fault and put it offline. I replaced faulty disk with new one (same series…
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SMART with Megaraid under windows

Is there a way to read RAW HDD SMART value that is behind a MegaRaid raid? apparently that is possible with smartmontools under linux, is there something similar possible with windows? Thanks.
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smartd: Device: /dev/sda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW

System: Centos 5.5 64bit RAID: Linux Soft RAID with 2 Disks Mirror Smartd complains about the disk failure in system log: [root@xxx ~]# tail /var/log/messages Jul 3 10:22:45 w11 smartd[6043]: Device: /dev/sda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA…
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Monitor SMART Values of a SAS/SCSI drive with Munin

I'm trying to monitor my two SAS drives using the SMART Tools Plugin for MUNIN. On SATA drives its no problem, all SMART values are being shown. It seems that smartctl doesn't output valuable SMART values for SAS drives: On Debian Squeeze with two…
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Collect smart hard disk data

How can I view SMART data on hardrives either on individual machines or (prefered) across an enterprise under windows 7/2008 r2?
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run and track SMART tests of harddisks

At our shop we have nagios checks for the SMART status of hard disks in linux servers, but it hasn't been really useful so far: by the time we get a SMART alarm the system already had problems so we already knew about it :) We then developed a…
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Why do I get "Device does not support SMART" on WD RE4?

I have my hard disks being set up remotely on a Dell R200 server using Ubuntu OS. When I tried to verify the disk specs (which are supposed to be WD RE4 set up in RAID1 array) I get this message: "Device does not support SMART" What could have…
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