check to see if a drive has failed

Andrew Hall andyjohnhall at gmail.com
Fri May 4 05:12:58 CDT 2007


Adam Williams wrote...

"I was thinking of running a daily cron and having it email me the
output from "omreport storage vdisk" and look at the Status Line."

If you're happy to run OMSA then I would argue this is the simplest
solution, yes.

If you choose not to run OMSA then it gets trickier, especially with a
mix of PERC4 and PERC5 cards :-)

If you'd like I can detail the solution I use, but if you run OMSA
then use omreport.



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