Check disk health in hardware RAID

[sunshine20]

Hello,

Is smartctl a good command to display health of disks configured in a hardware RAID? My server has one logical drive (RAID 5), configured with three hard disks. I want to set up monitoring and want to know if the below output is good indicator of disk status?

smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Vendor: HP
Product: LOGICAL VOLUME
Revision: 6.00
User Capacity: 599,932,844,032 bytes [599 GB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Logical Unit id: 0x600508b1001c77bb5eb8e0d3130d1757
Serial number: 00143803245F7B0
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Thu May 14 12:17:21 2015 EDT
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
SMART Health Status: OK

Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging

Thanks!

[TrevorH]

I think you can persuade smartctl to look at the drives behind an HP array controller but it's probably easier to download the HP hpacucli utility to do it. They have rpms that you can install.

[sunshine20]

Thank you!

[Whoever]

Here are the options to make smartctl work:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supp ... ontrollers