gmirror HD failure detection

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Thu Sep 21 13:25:58 PDT 2006


John Nielsen wrote:
......
>> Use both approaches since they tell you different things which just
>> happen some of the time to coincide.
> 
> If you happen to be one of the smart admins who actually reviews the output of 
> the periodic scripts, then simply adding
> 	daily_status_gmirror_enable="YES"
> to /etc/periodic.conf will give you a daily health check. If you want more 
> granularity than a single day, you could use the contents of the periodic 
> script as a starting point for rolling your own.
> 
> JN
> 

That's good as I actually get all of our servers to email to me. I have 
also done the smartd thing with an email output as well.

Thanks to all for useful input.
-- 
Robin Becker


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