hi ya there's a collection of raid monitoring scripts... donno if its good or bad..but you can customize to taste?? http://www.1U-Raid5.net/Monitoring/ for checking for SMART capable IDE drives... http://www.blueskyinnovations.com/smartp.html http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/smart.shtml have fun alvin On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote: > 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. > - 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
