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Hardware Monitoring: Errors Triggering Alerts on the ErrorCount Parameter for Physical Disks on Sun Solaris Systems

KB1083 - Aug 01, 2011

Type: Miscellaneous

Description: On Sun Solaris systems, the ErrorCount parameter shows the number of errors that occurred on each physical disk since the last counter reset (either a reboot or a manual acknowledge and reset of the parameter). This article details which conditions are taken into account by the ErrorCount parameter and trigger an alarm.

Additional Keywords: Alerts, dd, ErrorCount, iostat

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