On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 02/13/2011 11:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: <SNIP> >> >> 4) Assuming I do get this working, while testing can i have the >> program email me every 60 minutes whether things are good or bad, just >> to test that it's actually working and getting results? > > I don't think you can get it to mail you when it's happy, but you can > simulate a failure: > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3
Thanks for the info Micheal. I got mailx to send successfully to my GMail account using this page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Gmail_and_sSMTP I'll read through the links you posted to look at creating a test case. From the page you posted above I'm trying this at the command line: mdadm --monitor --mail=markkne...@gmail.com --delay=1800 /dev/md126 but I assume you think it won't do anything unless there's a problem found. Do those options properly belong in /etc/conf.d/mdadm.conf as the file itself seems to indicate? mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/mdadm # /etc/conf.d/mdadm: config file for /etc/init.d/mdadm # Misc options to pass to mdadm in monitor mode. # For more info, run `mdadm --monitor --help` or see # the mdadm(8) manpage. MDADM_OPTS="--syslog" mark@c2stable ~ $ Also, I have many RAIDs. Do they all get appended to the same monitor command, or when started as a daemon does mdadm --monitor actually monitor all RAIDs? (If you know...) Thanks! Cheers, Mark
