Smartd startup service failure

Question

We have just loaded Unbreakable Linux 4 on a new HP Proliant DL360 Server. The server has a HP Smart Array Raid controller that is recognized as a CCISS drive in Linux. From the get go, and after doing all ULN required updates, this service on start was failing, smartd , which is a disk monitoring daemon. After doing some research it look like version of smartmontools that came packaged with our version of the Unbreakable Linux 4 is version 5.33 . I checked the smartmontools Homepage (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/) and it looks like the more recent version of this package, smartmontools v.5.37 supports this CCISS (Compaq Smart Array Controller) for Linux and was added 2006-10-09. Long story short, it looks like we may need to upgrade this package, from 5.33 to 5.37, and I was wondering if anyone has any details on obtaining this package or any other suggestions on getting this smartd service to work?

Answer 1

Q:Would we have a way of testing a failure without actually having a failure, just to be sure this is monitoring?
A:you can use "smartctl" command
It is smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform SMART tasks such as printing the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling SMART automatic testing, and initiating device self-tests.For getting more information ,please run 'man smartctl'
Q: would any changes need be applied to the smartd.conf file, such as making it monitor controller CCISS ?
A: you must add option '-d cciss,N' to /etc/smartd.conf to monitor controller CCISS .The non-negative integer N (in the range from 0 to 15 inclusive) denotes which disk on the controller is monitored
eg:
/dev/sda -d cciss,0
Q: Failed to find rpmbuild command on RHEL5.0
A: you can check if there is rpmbuild package .
#rpm -qa |grep rpm-build
The version on RHEL5 is rpm-build-4.4.2-37.el5
Best Regards
Jason