We send the result of "amcheck -m" to our pagers, and I've always wanted a problem only option for amcheck so that all of the output was related to the problems, and everything that was OK would be quiet. And, of course, if there are no problems it is completely silent like -m does. The pages get to be pretty long with:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /local-project/tmp/amanda/holding/daily: 2670724 MB disk space available, using 2645124 MB slot 21:read label `daily-051', date `20100810210000'. NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape daily-051 label ok Server check took 96.342 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- Client check: 170 hosts checked in 14.855 seconds. 0 problems found. (brought to you by Amanda 2.6.1p2) Which is 482 pages, or 4 pages. I could stand a middle ground, that if the problem was a client down the output would be like: Server check OK WARNING: keyhole: selfcheck request failed: No route to host Or, if there is a server problem: Changer problem: cannot open SCSI device '/dev/daily-changer' - No such file or directory Client check: 70 hosts, 0 problems found. But I still think that this new magic switch would only report problems, nothing else.
