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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: checking state of RAID (for automated notifications)
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:44:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FE8A68.8060306@wpkg.org> (raw)

I would like to have RAID status monitored by nagios.

This sounds like a simple script, but I'm not sure what approach is correct.


Considering, that the "health" status of /proc/mdstat looks like this:

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid10]
md2 : active raid10 sda2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
       779264640 blocks super 1.0 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]

md1 : active raid1 sdd1[1] sdc1[0]
       1076224 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
       1076224 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>


What my script should be checking?

Does the number of "U" (8 for this host) letters indicate that RAID is 
healthy?
Or should I count "in_sync" in "cat /sys/block/md*/md/rd*/state"?
Perhaps the two approaches are the same, though.


What's the best way to determine that the RAID is running fine?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-06  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-06  8:44 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2006-09-06 16:50 ` checking state of RAID (for automated notifications) Mike Hardy
2006-09-07  8:30   ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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