Chapter 24
Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)
Sometimes Solaris Volume Manager encounters a problem, such as being unable to
write to a volume due to physical errors at the slice level. When
problems occur, Solaris Volume Manager changes the status of the volume so that
system administrators can stay informed. However, unless you regularly check the status in
the Solaris Volume Manager GUI through the Solaris Management Console, or by running
the metastat command, you might not see these status changes promptly.
This chapter provides information about various monitoring tools that are available for Solaris
Volume Manager One tool is the Solaris Volume Manager SNMP agent, which
is a subagent of the Solstice Enterprise AgentsTM monitoring software. In addition to configuring the this
tool to report SNMP traps, you can create a shell script to actively
monitor many Solaris Volume Manager functions. This shell script could run as
a cron job and be valuable in identifying issues before they become
problems.
This is a list of the information in this chapter:
