Message on PA-5000 Series: Disk Pair is Degraded and Missing a Device
Resolution
Symptom
On a Palo Alto Networks PA-5000 Series firewall, the system logs may show the following messages:
2012/11/30 19:21:41 info general general 0 New Disk Pair maint detected.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 info general general 0 New Disk Pair sysroot0 detected.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 info general general 0 New Disk Pair sysroot1 detected.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 info general general 0 New Disk Pair pancfg detected.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 info general general 0 New Disk Pair panrepo detected.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 info general general 0 New Disk Pair swap detected.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 info general general 0 New Disk Pair panlogs detected.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 medium general general 0 Disk Pair panlogs is degraded and missing a device.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 medium general general 0 Disk Pair swap is degraded and missing a device.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 medium general general 0 Disk Pair panrepo is degraded and missing a device.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 medium general general 0 Disk Pair pancfg is degraded and missing a device.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 medium general general 0 Disk Pair sysroot1 is degraded and missing a device.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 medium general general 0 Disk Pair sysroot0 is degraded and missing a device.
2012/11/30 19:21:41 medium general general 0 Disk Pair maint is degraded and missing a device.
Cause
By default, the PA-5000 Series firewalls expect two hard disk drives installed in a RAID configuration. If the unit has one hard disk, then the messages are normal and may be safely ignored.
To confirm the disk status, enter the following CLI command:
> show system raid detail
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