I need to know if/what the EXACT steps are involved with monitoring for a Failed Hard Drive and/or a Physical Disk Failure. Specifically something from Insight Manager within the HP Management Pack.

I believe there is an event (several actually) in the system log for disk failures.. Furthermore, vendor hardware monitoring like HP or IBM may also log disk issues in the application log and or their own log files. Therefore, just create a new mp, that contains these rules and targets the appropriate classes, and set up your subscriptions for disk issues.Regards, Blake Email: mengotto<at>hotmail.com Blog: http://discussitnow.wordpress.com/

In Windows 2003 there are actually RAID events you can monitor. For some bizar reason they were removed in windows 2008 and R2 so for these 2 version I guess you'll have to rely on IBM or DELL mp's which monitor the server in a whole.It's doing common things uncommonly well that brings succes.

The HP management pack is actually a good one to check for hardware failures. It uses the HP management agent which you have hopefully installed on your machine to pull its data to SCOM. When something happens it either shows you directly in SCOM where the problem is or it will redirect you to the hp management page on the machine and already point you in the right direction. For instance you might see a memory bank is broken and it will point you to the management page on the machine to investigate further. So anything that the windows event log doesnt show you you can pick up using that route.Bob Cornelissen - BICTT (My BICTT Blog)

Hi, I would like to share the following with you for your reference: Can we get Predictive HDD failure alert in SCOM http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/77211c45-1f68-49dd-a803-a19e2618e2d0 Meanwhile, I also think you can try the HP management pack or contact HP for more information and help: HP Support http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html Note: Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information. Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.