What is normal for PERC monitoring and status ?
Jeff Boyce
jboyce at meridianenv.com
Tue May 2 16:01:20 CDT 2006
Greetings -
I am trying to understand what is normal activity and monitoring for my PERC
system. My basic system information is listed below. Several months ago I
noticed sporadic BATTERY FAST CHARGING FAILED notices in the log file.
Recommendations at that time were to replace the cache battery. I replaced
the cache battery in late February as noted in the MEGASERV log file shown
below. Upon rebooting the system after replacing the battery, the system
conducted an extensive number of charge cycles (about 400) in the first few
hours of operation. Many of these charge cycles also failed on a sporadic
basis. Also note that since the initial flurry of monitoring activity ended
in early March there has been nothing added to the megaserv.log file since
March 6th. Nothing has changed on my system during this time period, my
last kernel update was conducted before the battery was replaced. I suspect
that this (lack of monitoring) behavior is not normal, but do not understand
why or what I should be doing about it. It is also interesting that OMSA
reports my battery charge cycles significantly different than what is
reported by megaserv.log. It doesn't appear that OMSA's status of my cache
battery has changed since the battery was replaced. Can anyone offer any
suggestions regarding what is happening and what I should be doing, or what
I should be concerned about? Is this behavior normal of a system that is
operating properly? Thanks.
SYSTEM INFORMATION
Dell PE 2600
PERC 4/Di
RedHat ES3, up to date to 2.4.21-37.ELsmp
3 - 36GB drives configured as RAID 5
System functions primarily as Samba file server
OMSA ver. 4.5
OMSA BATTERY REPORT STATUS
Battery on Controller PERC 4/Di
Properties : Ok
Name; Battery 0
State; Ready
Recharge Count; 314
Max Recharge Count 1100
MEGASERV.LOG
[02/10/2006 (15:09:30)]:
PERCRAID Monitor Service Ver 4.00(40-LD) Aug 05, 2003 started
[02/10/2006 (15:09:30)]:
MailFlag value set as:-
MailFlag: 1 (0-means no mailing of events will be done
1-means events will be mailed also).
[02/10/2006 (15:09:30)]:
-: Initial CheckConsistency Schedule :-
EnableFlag: 1
Date: 02/10/2006
DayOfWeek: 0
HourOfDay: 0
Week(s): 1
ReportChkonProgInterval: 0 seconds(0 means report in-frequently)
[02/10/2006 (15:09:30)]:
-: Initial SMART Polling Schedule :-
SMARTPollingOn: Yes
SMARTPollingInterval: 60 Seconds
[02/10/2006 (15:09:30)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Temperature GOOD.
[02/10/2006 (15:09:30)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Voltage GOOD.
[02/10/2006 (15:09:30)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 302
[02/10/2006 (22:02:25)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 303
[02/10/2006 (23:30:19)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 304
[02/11/2006 (02:47:34)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 305
[02/13/2006 (14:00:54)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[02/13/2006 (14:00:54)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 306
[02/14/2006 (21:27:21)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 307
[02/15/2006 (04:24:32)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 308
[02/15/2006 (08:47:49)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 309
[02/15/2006 (10:37:21)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 310
[02/19/2006 (00:00:14)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0 is in CheckConsistency.
[02/19/2006 (00:00:25)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0 is in Checking Consistency Progress.
[02/19/2006 (00:12:50)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 8%
[02/19/2006 (00:27:51)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 18%
[02/19/2006 (00:42:52)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 28%
[02/19/2006 (00:57:52)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 38%
[02/19/2006 (01:12:53)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 48%
[02/19/2006 (01:27:54)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 58%
[02/19/2006 (01:42:55)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 68%
[02/19/2006 (01:57:55)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 78%
[02/19/2006 (02:12:56)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 89%
[02/19/2006 (02:27:57)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 98%
[02/19/2006 (02:29:36)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is COMPLETED.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PERC Cache Battery Replaced on 2/23/2006 at noon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
PERCRAID Monitor Service Ver 4.00(40-LD) Aug 05, 2003 started
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
MailFlag value set as:-
MailFlag: 1 (0-means no mailing of events will be done
1-means events will be mailed also).
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
-: Initial CheckConsistency Schedule :-
EnableFlag: 1
Date: 02/23/2006
DayOfWeek: 0
HourOfDay: 0
Week(s): 1
ReportChkonProgInterval: 0 seconds(0 means report in-frequently)
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
-: Initial SMART Polling Schedule :-
SMARTPollingOn: Yes
SMARTPollingInterval: 60 Seconds
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Temperature GOOD.
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Voltage GOOD.
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging IN PROGRESS.
[02/23/2006 (12:46:52)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 313
[02/23/2006 (12:47:10)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 314
[02/23/2006 (12:48:49)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 315
[02/23/2006 (12:49:00)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 316
[02/23/2006 (12:49:18)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[02/23/2006 (12:49:18)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 317
[02/23/2006 (12:49:29)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging IN PROGRESS.
[02/23/2006 (12:50:45)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 318
[02/23/2006 (12:51:43)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[02/23/2006 (12:51:54)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging IN PROGRESS.
[02/23/2006 (12:52:12)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[02/23/2006 (12:52:23)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 319
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Clip Begin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
259 Charge Cycles in Clipped Range
110 Failed Charging Notices in Clipped Range
Approx. 2 hrs. time period
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Clip End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[02/23/2006 (14:49:16)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 578
[02/23/2006 (14:49:28)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[02/23/2006 (14:49:45)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging IN PROGRESS.
[02/23/2006 (14:50:25)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[02/23/2006 (14:50:43)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 581
[02/23/2006 (14:50:54)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 583
[02/23/2006 (14:51:12)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 585
[02/23/2006 (14:51:23)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 587
[02/23/2006 (14:51:41)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 588
[02/23/2006 (14:51:52)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 590
[02/23/2006 (14:52:10)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 593
[02/23/2006 (14:52:21)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 594
[02/26/2006 (19:37:13)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 595
[03/03/2006 (05:59:16)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[03/03/2006 (05:59:34)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 596
[03/03/2006 (14:45:44)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 597
[03/05/2006 (00:00:09)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0 is in CheckConsistency.
[03/05/2006 (00:00:21)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0 is in Checking Consistency Progress.
[03/05/2006 (00:09:35)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 6%
[03/05/2006 (00:24:36)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 16%
[03/05/2006 (00:39:37)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 26%
[03/05/2006 (00:54:39)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 36%
[03/05/2006 (01:09:40)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 46%
[03/05/2006 (01:24:42)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 56%
[03/05/2006 (01:39:43)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 66%
[03/05/2006 (01:54:45)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 76%
[03/05/2006 (02:09:47)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 86%
[03/05/2006 (02:24:48)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is in PROGRESS 96%
[03/05/2006 (02:29:40)]:
Adapter 0 Logical Drive 0: Check Consistency is COMPLETED.
[03/06/2006 (01:36:15)]:
Adapter 0: Battery Fast Charging FAILED.
[03/06/2006 (01:36:16)]:
Adapter 0: No of Charge Cycles = 598
Jeff Boyce
Meridian Environmental
www.meridianenv.com
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