Hi Alexander,

slightly off-topic, but I couldn't resist:

from the documentation:
options raid.min_spare_count
Specifies the minimum number of spare drives required to avoid warnings for low spares. If there are at
least raid.min_spare_count spare drives that are appropriate replacements for any filesystem disk, then
there will be no warnings for low spares. This option can be set from 0 to 4. The default setting is 1.
Setting this option to 0 means that there will be no warnings for low spares even if there are no spares
available. This option can be set to 0 only on systems with 16 or fewer attached drives and that are
running with RAID-DP aggregates. A setting of 0 is not allowed on systems with RAID4 aggregates.

It's e.g. mentioned also in the Storage Subsystem Technical FAQ under the heading 'WHAT IS THE RECOMMENDED AGGREGATE AND RAID GROUP CONFIGURATION FOR A FAS2020 OR FAS2040 SYSTEM USING ONLY 12 INTERNAL DRIVES?' for an asymmetric configuration...

Mind you: There are certain conditions to be met to be able to set this to 0 which you might not have fulfilled...

Hope that helps

Sebastian


On 24.04.2013 18:10, Alexander Griesser wrote:
Hi John,

there are serveral things that cannot be configured here (at least that's what I've always been told when asking questions like this).
I do have filers which are low on spares intentionally f.ex., but according to NetApp (at least according to the tech that handled my autosupport case) there's no option of telling the filer to not moan about a low spares condition.

We were doing UPS maintenance some weeks ago and I forgot to disable auto support before doing that and so a handful of autosupport tickets got created and I did also ask if it's possible to disable AS warnings for power conditions, but just got the same answer there: Not possible.

So if there are ways to fine-tune what gets sent via autosupport, I'd love to hear them too :)

Bye,

Alexander Griesser
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] Im Auftrag von John Stoffel
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. April 2013 18:07
An: toasters@teaparty.net
Betreff: Running on non-redundant power


Guys,

We're in the process of starting to migrate from some 3140s running
7.3.6 to a 3220 cluster running 8.1.2, or whatever the latest release
is.  Going from 3.5 racks down to just 1 rack, woohoo!  But I'm short
of 30amp power plugs in my data center.  So my plan is to drop one of
my 3140s down to just two 30A circuits so I can bring up the 3220
cluster with fully redundant power.

I know I need to turn off autosupport while this is happening, though
I'd like to just turn off warning about power problems and keep auto
support going for disk failures.  

Any suggestions or comments?

Thanks,
John
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