Alert if Software RAID fails?

[Eric Phillips]

Hi All,

Simple question for you all. I have a Windows 2003 server that is using
software RAID1 mirroring for both the system and the data partition. I
understand that if the primary drive fails the system locks. But I need to
find a way to automatically notify me if the secondary drive fails, or would
that too lock the system?

I have read on this newsgroup that a failure of software RAID would generate
an event log entry, but it is impractical to monitor the logs of 25+ servers
at 25 different clients.

Thanks in advance,

Eric Phillips

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi All,

Simple question for you all. I have a Windows 2003 server that is using
software RAID1 mirroring for both the system and the data partition. I
understand that if the primary drive fails the system locks. But I need to
find a way to automatically notify me if the secondary drive fails, or would
that too lock the system?

I have read on this newsgroup that a failure of software RAID would generate
an event log entry, but it is impractical to monitor the logs of 25+ servers
at 25 different clients.

Thanks in advance,

Eric Phillips

Why is it impractical to monitor the logs of 25+ servers? Implement
a routine that looks at each event log once every 24 hours, and
generate an automatic email note to yourself when the failure is
detected!

Even better: You could send yourself an automatic email note of
every error event (as opposed to warning events).

 

[Eric Phillips]

Hi Pegasus,

Thanks for the reply. Do you have a free utility that you use for e-mailing
logs; or is there a built in method of sending certain types of events (like
errors) by e-mail that I am not aware of? Sounds exactly like what I need
to do for sure though.

Eric

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Use mailto.exe, sendmail.exe or blat to create EMail notes
from within a batch file. All of them are available in the public
domain.