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Description of problem:

In the current documentation for RHEL 7 ( https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/System_Administrators_Guide/index.html ) there is no mention of smartctl or smartmontools.  This means that there is no documentation for how to detect and deal with errors of the underlying block storage of the operating system, even though we provide tools to do this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/System_Administrators_Guide/index.html

Suggest documentation contents:

 1) How to detect storage errors - /var/log/messages and smartmontools
 2) How to verify storage errors - reading the smartctl output

Current documentation:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/37986
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/263133

Hope this helps,

Paul

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 life cycle has entered Maintenance Support Phase, which means that only qualified Critical and Important Security errata advisories (RHSAs) and some Urgent Priority Bug Fix errata advisories (RHBAs) will be released as they become available.  Unfortunately, this issue was not selected to be included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. We will now close this issue. We recommend moving the request to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 if applicable.

See the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle for more details:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/