Perhaps you are right about advantages of email. And thanks for the snmp idea.
I'm used to XP for desktop. I look after Solaris 10 SPARC boxes at work. Now I
migrated to opensolaris for my desktop: XP in VBox stored on a 6-disk raidz
starts and works faster than a physical single-disk PC!
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I understand that the Fault Management Service can report via SNMP. Perhaps
there's a suitable gnome SNMP agent that you can adapt to your needs (perhaps
here http://www.gxsnmp.org).
I tend to rely on e-mail for this sort of thing: I monitor my e-mail regularly
and I can look at it remotely (a
> Should one of the drives in the zpool fail I want the system to pop the big
> "red flag" on top of everything
> (Gnome/VBox/etc) and warn me before the second drive dies and I lose my dear
> MP3s.
Indeed. That's something I want, too.
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Thanks, Ben!
I will definitely read up on fmadm etc.
Does Gnome in o.s. have any integration with it ("red flags" popping up)?
Otherwise it's as good as "zpool status -x" or grepping through logs every
morning.
Maybe I should be asking a more general question, is there any way to bring a
critic
Have you looked at the Fault Management services? Start with fmadm (eg, "fmadm
faulty") and then http://opensolaris.org/os/community/fm.
The "Open Solaris Bible" by Solter, Jelinek and Miner covers this and much
else, an excellent book.
Ben.
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I am using an opensolaris box exclusively as a desktop machine with two 24'
monitors and a large storage pool configured as raidz1 which is built of
several SATA drives of identical size and model. Most of the time the machine
is on and in Gnome or Windows XP VirtualBOX - full screen. I want to
