Robert Denton said: > Does anyone have an opinion on the best way to be notified if a hard drive > on a remote linux server dies? I have done considerable > freshmeat/sourceforge searching and it looks like there are plenty of > what's up gold like products and heat sensors, but I am not seeing much > for hard drive monitoring or raid monitoring.
if your using software raid, there's a program called mdadm which emails you when your software raid state changes. not sure off the top of my head if it's available as part of a default redhat install, looks like there is an article on it here: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html there is also a module for big brother which can monitor linux software raid setups: http://bb.aphroland.org/bb/html/portal.aphroland.org.md.html as for hardware raid..not sure. 3ware has a admin tool which emails you when the array changes state(in my experience it's usually too late since the system usually crashes when a disk fails, even when using 6-disk raid10) I have a mylex acceleraid 150 on my home redhat box, haven't seen any such software for it .. you could always run logcheck, usually a failed disk will spew tons of errors to the system log, and logcheck audits the logs and emails the results(my syslog server emails me once a day with the log entries). logcheck can take some time to tune though to weed out the stuff thats normal in the logs. nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
