Maybe a clever little script that parses the /proc/mdsats file periodically and fires off an email if it doesn't like what it sees?
J --- Jon Watson 1.403.875.6048 ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CLUG General <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Jul 30 15:56:18 2007 Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Hardware raid monitoring? On 7/30/07, Martin Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm running a server with an Intel hardware raid controller using 4 SATA > drives (raid 5 + hotspare). It is using the megaraid driver. > > Is there any way to monitor the health of the raid - I would like > notification (email, syslog) if the raid gets degraded? > > I did a test by pulling one of the drives - the machine started beeping > like crazy, but there was absolutely nothing in my syslog files or even > in dmesg. This is concerning if nobody is near the machine and so > doesn't hear the beeping... I think smartmontools would help out there (smartd) I don't know if they have support for Intel RAID (what chip is it?) In your case, smartd should send you an email if something as drastic as a disk disappearing occurred, regardless of smartd's raid controller support. -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
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