Now finally got through, some rbl picked up the shaw mail server ..... :-)) Lol. Cheers Szemir
On July 30, 2007 17:06, bogi wrote: > Yep, that would have worked if he had used software raid, but with the > hardware raid ??? Linux does not see that it is a raid, it just sees a big > hdd. I would really want to know if there is a good way of monitoring a > hardware raid ... > Cheers > Szemir > > On July 30, 2007 14:01, Jon wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
