On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:33:08PM +0200, Laurent Caron wrote: > Hi, > > I recently moved a server from old disks to now ones and added a > hotspare (mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/sdf2) > > the hotspare appears in /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] > md1 : active raid5 sdf2[5] sde2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] sda2[0] > 285699584 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] > > > when I fail a disk, mdadm does *not* send me any warning. >From the mdamd man page: Only Fail , FailSpare , DegradedArray , and TestMessage cause Email to be sent. Your event is "SpareActive" which does not trigger an alert mail, however all events can be reported through the "--program" switch: All events cause the program to be run. The program is run with two or three arguments, they being the event name, the array device and possibly a second device. > Only at the second failure when the array is in degraded state I receive > a warning. > How may I receive a warning when the hotspare disk has been used to cope > with a disk failure? --program "my_mail_script.sh" #!/bin/sh nail -s "$1 event detected on device $2 $3" root < EOF Dear admin, You array seems to have suffered to breakage: A $1 event was received on for device $2 $3. Fix it ASAP! Regards, EOF -- This space for rent. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
