🔥 How to monitor for Disk Failure on HP ML G6

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To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Thanks for your help guys - 2 things are now obviouse : Servers not set up to there potential I still have a lot to learn about server side management I will go ahead and have a look tonght when no one using the server - the way i know how to do it and look into getting the iLO set up or at very least get some HP tools installed on the server OS. Ghost Chili. Any ideas? Michael - there was no option but to reboot - by frozen i mean the server was doing nothing Hot swap was not an option. Tim This person is a verified professional. The firmware can be updated and it will be fixed so that you don't experience this problem with another drive failure. While its up, you can run online insight diagnostics if its set up. James Dec 15, at UTC. Best Answer. I've seen this issue and it is a SmartArray bug that the box will freeze due to crazy IO load caused by errors from the array controller. Spiceworks Help Desk. I will go ahead and have a look tonght when no one using the server - the way i know how to do it and look into getting the iLO set up or at very least get some HP tools installed on the server OS. Dogs Dec 15, at UTC. Read these next{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Michael Dec 15, at UTC. Post up the hardware Check for any firmware upgrades Run insight diagnostics etc. Martin This person is a verified professional. If you still have support on the server I'd be getting hold of HP and getting it swapped out asap. Girls all reported there remote termanals to the server as frozen.. I cant see any tools or anythign to check the drives other than at boot up and as i have been forced to let Payroll continue server is running fine now i will wait until tonight and take it down and see what diagnostics i can run on boot up. And no iLO setup. You say logs, os and server? Ok we just had a strange incident on our finance and payroll server. Popular Topics in HP Hardware. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Martin - i'll have another look but seen nothing first time round. Am i missing any logs? Hard boot server and everything comes back up fine - wanted to investigate more but was forced to let Payroll back on as this is the wages week. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Went to investigate server to find One drive off and one drive solid green with a clicking sound. No HP tools - guess they never got installed when server was built. I never did work out what was wrong with it at had to replace it the end. Also if you have ILO configured worth checking via that for hardware related issues. Pure Capsaicin. The help desk software for IT. Thanks again for your help. The deployment tool with the support pack will let you install everything in groups, identify what you can and and what you should have, warn of issues, and will help you setup iLO and the System Manager. We've been replacing drives for fun over the last few months in 2 DL G5's with similar behaviour to that you describe. Its been a while since Ive done it, so I cant remember the exacts Ill have a look through some of my old training material if I get chance. You can also check the IML logs which are gathered from outside of the os and show hardware failures etc. If you have set up system management with snmp traps you can get a lot of information there about the state of the hardware and errors etc. Though i now know what iLO is so ill look into getting that sorted asap. Out of curiosity what HP Server model is this? I have warned them to back up etc etc but i also want to know what the hell went wrong.. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional.