Originally posted by: peturb

Hi, I was wondering if someone knew the answer to this, because I couldn't find documentation about it.

On a default aix 5.3 install, crontab has entries that look like this,

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1. SSA warning : Deleting the next two lines may cause errors in redundant
2. SSA warning : hardware to go undetected.

01 5 * * * /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/run_ssa_ela 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
0 * * * * /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/run_ssa_healthcheck 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

1. SSA warning : Deleting the next line may allow enclosure hardware errors to go undetected

30 * * * * /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/run_ssa_encl_healthcheck 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

1. SSA warning : Deleting the next line may allow link speed exceptions to go undetected

30 4 * * * /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/run_ssa_link_speed 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
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Is there any reason to have these entries in crontab if you are not using SSA?
Or are the checks also useful for detecting errors in other external storage?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

AFAIK there is no reason to run these if you don't have SSA devices. I have disabled them on a couple of such boxes without suffering any ill effects.

Regards,
Jim Lane
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Originally posted by: peturb

Thanks for the advice :)

I commented out the ssa checks and so far so good.
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