Maybe we could start with software RAID status monitoring? It's pretty well
WORKING or NOT_WORKING status.
Trev.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:06 PM
> To: 'Jeff Martin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] E-smith monitor suggestions
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] E-smith monitor suggestions
> >
> >
> > Not sure if it's possible but it would be nice to have some
> > kind of alert
> > sent via email if problems were found.
>
>
> Sending the email is the easy part. The problem with this type of thing is
> defining what exactly a "problem" is. For example, on systems with very
> small drives, free space below 20% is a problem. For others it is not a
> problem until you hit 5%. Other folks prefer to set those levels as actual
> free space rather than percentages. And so on. Then there is the issue of
> "warning" vs "alert" messages, or "code yellow" vs "code red" problems, or
> other severity mapping schemes. There is even the issue of what
> to call them
> -- Warning/Alert, Code Green/Yellow/Red, Level 1/2/3, Low/Med/High, etc.
>
> These issues can be solved by allowing user specified trigger
> levels for one
> or multiple severity levels, plus the appropriate labeling and message
> content, etc. But then you have the problem of maintaining the
> configuration
> for the alert system. Sometimes the configuration management for an
> application can be a larger task than the application itself!
>
> I'm not saying it can't be done or wouldn't be valuable if it were done --
> I'm only cautioning that the number of options are many and depending upon
> how many are pursued the task may not be simple at all.
>
> Scott
>
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