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Earlier failure detection of disks?
It seems that every time I have a failed drive, I discover the failure in one of two ways: 1. I'm in the wiring closet and see the OLED panel lit up and investigate - seeing the "Vol C: is unprotecte...
I'm not talking about the delay between frontview errors/events, but rather the "disk failure" logic seems inferior.
The delay on emails is very small... once Frontview has detected an issue. But the OS level detection seems to be much earlier.
I have a somewhat hackish solution...
edited /etc/rc.local:
(parses the syslog on the fly and dumps any instances of "SMART errors" to a new file)
Then as a personal cron I check the md5sum on the SMART.log file and email myself if it changes.
The delay on emails is very small... once Frontview has detected an issue. But the OS level detection seems to be much earlier.
I have a somewhat hackish solution...
edited /etc/rc.local:
tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep --line-buffered ": failed command: SMART" >> /var/log/SMART.log
(parses the syslog on the fly and dumps any instances of "SMART errors" to a new file)
Then as a personal cron I check the md5sum on the SMART.log file and email myself if it changes.
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