On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Oliver Marshall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oliver.marshall@g2support.com" target="_blank">oliver.marshall@g2support.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Great info guys. Thanks<div><br></div><div>Don't suppose you know of a way to simulate a drive failure? We dont have any failing drives to test the monitoring scripts with.</div><div><br></div><div>Olly<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I would throw in there HD Sentinel as well:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php">http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Their Linux client is free. It is a small twist on SMART monitoring in that instead of a "pass/fail" for each item, it creates a score on the overall health of the drive. That way you can monitor and if a drive starts getting bad sectors all of a sudden (but not enough to "fail" the smart tests) then you will still know. We wrote up a small nagios script that uses hd sentinel to alert us if a drive's health goes below a certain threshold. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, on another note, if you are doing Linux RAID, there are good Nagios plugins for that as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Preston </div>