Kent,

Would it be possible to share your script with me (and the list)?  I run
software raid and have been looking for an effective way to monitor my
mirrored raid drives.

Thanks,

Trevor
gnuguy.com

>The greatest risk to computer reliability is complexity.  That's why,
>when I crafted a little cron job to let me know whether I have had a
>raid disk failure, I opted for simple, simple, simple: A reference
>copy of /proc/mdstat and an ultra simple script that diffs it with the
>current /proc/mdstat and e-mails me the difference if there is any
>difference.  This means that for as long as I have a dead disk I will
>get an e-mail every morning, it doesn't try to track state changes; it
>means that I have to manually update the reference copy when the
>status changes intentionally, but it is simple, simple, simple.  Very
>likely to work and very unlikely to break something else.



-kb




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