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Possible Recovery Solution Hard Drive Error Notification Policy

Updated: 22 Jan 2010 | 1 comment
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After digging through client events sent from the Recovery Agent on our workstations, we found that in some cases the RS snapshot process can reveal hard drive corruptions and/or possibly indicate a failing hard drive.  This occurs when the RS Agent is scanning the disk during the snapshot, and a particular error is logged.  We have implemented this and proactively replaced several dozen hard drives, which certainly leads to happy users!

This Notification Policy checks the Evt_AeX_RSA_Events table on the NS server for an error ID = 'c00b0003' and the description includes the word "cyclic", and the type is "error" (probably overkill, but the errorID alone was picking up false positives).  You may need to increase the maximum rowcount for this table in the NS configuration to get the best use out of this.

I thought I had posted this previously, but didn't find it.  Enjoy!

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Nifty. Thanks!

Nifty. Thanks!