Re: mdadm --monitor

[Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Wednesday January 29, danci@agenda.si wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to use mdadm to monitor my Linux RAID stuff, but it fails to
> send an email and/or run the program:
> 
> /etc/mdadm.conf
> 
> DEVICE /dev/hd*
> ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=9338f6b6:ccadf20b:0fd08433:8285e108
> ARRAY /dev/md1 uuid=91bdf2b7:f6e83922:49437c5e:da5d7930
> ARRAY /dev/md2 uuid=5f7f8c33:a492a6a3:4129ff63:ac152b4b
> MAILADDR raidalert
> PROGRAM /usr/local/sbin/raidalert
> 
> 'raidalert' is an alias for my account. If I do 'ls | mail raidalert', I
> get a mail containin the directory listing...
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/raidalert is very simple (for now) and it works:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/logger -p user.crit -t raidalert $@
> 
> So I guess I'm all set. I try 'mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/hdg1' and wait.
> On the console, where 'mdadm --monitor' is running, I get this:

Try adding "--scan" to the "mdadm --monitor" command.
I can see this is not intuitive - I'll try to tidy up for mdadm-1.1

NeilBrown

> 
> Jan 29 15:48:25: FailSpare on /dev/md0 /dev/hdg1
> 
> But why doesn't it send the mail and/or run the program??
> 
> Thanks, D.
> 
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