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How to find out when a drive dies
I have a VMAX 10K and a VMAX 3 and I don't get notifications about when drives fail. I decided to rdp into Unisphere server and do some symcli commands to check for a failed drive, and It found one. In Unisphere for VMAX, there is no notifications about a failed drive. But I would like to know when the drive failed. Is there a command that would show this event?
Thanks.
dynamox
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April 28th, 2017 15:00
there is notification for failed drives, it's considered "informational" so you might need to tweak your notification settings to get those alerts.
then there is the good old
symdisk -sid 1234 list -failed
k_williamson
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May 3rd, 2017 12:00
Dynamox,
Sorry for the delay as I was off for a few days.
The command symdisk -sid 1234 list -failed works well for knowing there is a failed drive. I am trying to find out when(the date) one failed, that has puzzled for a solution.
For the notification settings, was this somewhere in Unisphere for VMAX?
dynamox
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May 6th, 2017 05:00
as far as setting notification in Unisphere, you first enable Alert Policy for Disk Status and then Enable notification so that the little blue icon is selected under System Level.
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May 6th, 2017 05:00
if you want to know the date and actually look at other failure including disk, take a look at symevent
for example:
symevent -sid 123 list
as you can see i had a power supply go bad, then a disk failure. TImes are probably in UTC