Topic: Raidmonitor in SME7, how does it work?

[bjko]

Hi
It seems that raidmonitor is build in to SME7, but how does it work ?
can it send Email to admin in case of failure ?

Is there a users manual for raidmonitor ?

Anyone ?

[CharlieBrady]

Hi
It seems that raidmonitor is build in to SME7, but how does it work ?

It runs "mdadm --monitor".

can it send Email to admin in case of failure ?

Yes.

[mike_mattos]

I checked out mdadm --help, it is rather alarming in that it seems to say that it won't tell you if it isn't working due to a mail configuration issue

I've visited several sites but can't find a command to force mdadm --monitor to send a message.  looks like the program /bin/e-smith/mdevent actually sends the notice WHERE?
 
 mdevent from the command prompt just gives error messages, no email!

My casual investigation indicates that the admin email fowarding is NOT loaded on a default installation, you have to go and poke at it from the control panel, a very easy step to overlook!

[JonB]

You do get an email when the raid array is degraded.

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This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on host.domain.com.

A DegradedArray event has been detected on md device /dev/md1.


The email is sent to admin-raidreport@xxxx.xxx which is an alias for admin@

Jon