We have an old NetApp which is no longer covered by
a support contract, so I'm hopeful that one of you
might be able to answer my question. If this would
be more appropriate for one of the other discussion
areas, just let me know and I'll re-post it.
Anyway ... Our nagios server recently began sending
us alerts about our NetApp; specifically ...
SNMP WARNING - Disk_Spare_Count *1*
So I did a "sysconfig -r" on the NetApp. It reported
two RAID groups (each with thirteen disks, eleven of
which were labeled "data", one as "parity", and one
as "dparity"). No surprise there.
Then there was one disk in the "Spare disks" category,
with "spare" in the first column.
And the remaining disk was in a "Maintenance disks"
category, and the first column says "testing".
Testing what, exactly? And how long does whatever
it's doing typically take? (It's been that way for
several days now.)
In short, what do we need to do to get the number of
spare disks back to what it was?
We do have an extra disk sitting in a cabinet, which
was purchased so that we'd have one on site in case
one of the NetApp disks died.
Should be replace the disk reported as in a "testing"
state with that one? I.e. does "testing" really mean
"failed"?
And if we do replace it with our spare from the cabinet,
what needs to be done so that the NetApp will add it to
its "Spare disks" category?
Thanks in advance!