Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:24:09PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:41:40PM -0500, Andy Syrewicze wrote:
> >
> > I've got a server with no gui. Just CLI and Webmin.
> >
> > I would like to have some sort of monitoring and reporting service
> > that notifys me via e-mail if one of my Raid arrays Degrade and to let
> > me know if the SMART check on one of my Disks fail.
> >
> > I would also like to use a easy to setup/simple to use mail service
> > for this.
>
> smartmontools, madam
>
> Have it mail to you wherever you like. Where does other root mail end
> up?
>
> Doug.
A friend of mine had two drives fail simultaneously in his RAID setup.
Since those were the only two, he faces serious data loss. (everything
since the last backup, and yes, he did have one of those).
He tells me that when he investigated he found that one of the drives
had failed silently some time earlier, and the RAID was covering for the
failed drive by using the other. He also told me the SMART stuff had
provided no indication of any trouble.
I find myself wondering just how he found out that his drive had been
nonfunctional for some time if he didn't have any diagnostic information
-- but this story is enough to make me suspicious of RAID monitoring
tools.
Should I ask further about *exactly* what he had set up abd report back
here? (by the way, it wasn't Debian, nor was it and AMD-64, so this is
technically off-topic.)
-- hendrik
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