Hi,

Last week I happened to notice a disk which was “disabled due to excessive phy changes”. I contacted Netapp support and they promptly sent a replacement. Of course I asked why this didn’t show up in the failed disk count and they replied that it was “faulty not failed” (although the message in the logs say “Call home for DISK_FAIL – Disabled by IOM”).

Anyway, my concern of course is to catch these faulty disks. My preference for monitoring is Nagios and snmp but having snmpwalk-ed through the current mib (ontap 8.1.1) I don’t see an oid that would capture this faulty disk status – unless this is considered “prefailed”?

But I am more concerned with catching this problem than I am wedded to Nagios, so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Caroline

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