On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:46:58AM -0500, George Goble wrote: ... > Also, what is the state of the art in array monitoring > > (mdctl --monitor), to watch for drives failing, and to > to a raidhotadd from a single spares pool to multiple > md devices. Has Neil or anyone else expanded on > mdctl --monitor or I once heard that there were commercial > monitoring programs that worked with Linux MD raids? > Any comments before I delve into it? thanks in advance <shameless advertising> I happen to work for a company (Evalesco Systems) that is offering a commercial monitoring system that (among other things) supports Linux Software RAID. Take a look at http://www.evalesco.com. There's a free trial license too :) </shameless advertising> You can hack up a script pretty quickly that will monitor your RAID (for example relying on mdctl --monitor, or just parsing /proc/mdstat) - whether you want to go with a commercial suite or self-hacked scripts is pretty much a matter of taste, policy, etc. etc. -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
