zfs discuss - Apr 2008 - Simple monitoring of ZFS pools, email alerts?

Been goggling around on this to no avail...
 
We''re hoping to soon put into production an x4500 with a big ZFS pool,
replacing a (piece of junk) NAS head which replaced our old trusty
NetApp.
 
In each of those older boxes, we configured them to send out an email
when there was a component failure.
 
I''m trying to find the simplest way to do this with our ZFS box.
We''ve
got a rudimentary log parser, but I don''t want to rely on it to pick up
items in the messages file. Surely there is some way to get an email
alert when a disk pukes? I don''t want to re-invent the wheel (but am so
far pretty surprised I''ve not turned up any such so far).
 
TIA
 
johnS
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On 02 April, 2008 - John.Stewart at emerson.com sent me these 3,4K bytes:
> Been goggling around on this to no avail...
>  
> We''re hoping to soon put into production an x4500 with a big ZFS
pool,
> replacing a (piece of junk) NAS head which replaced our old trusty
> NetApp.
>  
> In each of those older boxes, we configured them to send out an email
> when there was a component failure.
>  
> I''m trying to find the simplest way to do this with our ZFS box.
We''ve
> got a rudimentary log parser, but I don''t want to rely on it to
pick up
> items in the messages file. Surely there is some way to get an email
> alert when a disk pukes? I don''t want to re-invent the wheel (but
am so
> far pretty surprised I''ve not turned up any such so far).
zpool status -x | grep -v ''all pools are healthy''

in cron, is one method ;)

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zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org wrote on 04/02/2008 04:54:58 PM:
> On 02 April, 2008 - John.Stewart at emerson.com sent me these 3,4K bytes:
>
> > Been goggling around on this to no avail...
> >
> > We''re hoping to soon put into production an x4500 with a big
ZFS pool,
> > replacing a (piece of junk) NAS head which replaced our old trusty
> > NetApp.
> >
> > In each of those older boxes, we configured them to send out an email
> > when there was a component failure.
> >
> > I''m trying to find the simplest way to do this with our ZFS
box. We''ve
> > got a rudimentary log parser, but I don''t want to rely on it
to pick up
> > items in the messages file. Surely there is some way to get an email
> > alert when a disk pukes? I don''t want to re-invent the wheel
(but am so
> > far pretty surprised I''ve not turned up any such so far).
>
> zpool status -x | grep -v ''all pools are healthy''
>
> in cron, is one method ;)
Also for hardware and services make sure you understand sfm/ssm.  They do
not really cover ZFS/disks yet on the Solaris10 side -- I do not know about
in the latest OpenSolaris builds.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/selfheal.jsp

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:23 PM, <John.Stewart at emerson.com> wrote:
>  Been goggling around on this to no avail...
>
> We''re hoping to soon put into production an x4500 with a big ZFS
pool,
> replacing a (piece of junk) NAS head which replaced our old trusty NetApp.
>
> In each of those older boxes, we configured them to send out an email when
> there was a component failure.
>
> I''m trying to find the simplest way to do this with our ZFS box.
We''ve got
> a rudimentary log parser, but I don''t want to rely on it to pick
up items in
> the messages file. Surely there is some way to get an email alert when a
> disk pukes? I don''t want to re-invent the wheel (but am so far
pretty
> surprised I''ve not turned up any such so far).
>
> TIA
>
> johnS
>
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>
>From what I can tell, this is available via IPMI.  The 1.0 specification has
a flag for "disk/disk bay".  Any experts want to confirm/deny?
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Le mercredi 02 avril 2008 ? 16:23 -0500, John.Stewart at emerson.com a
?crit :
> Been goggling around on this to no avail...
>  
> We''re hoping to soon put into production an x4500 with a big ZFS
pool,
> replacing a (piece of junk) NAS head which replaced our old trusty
> NetApp.
>  
> In each of those older boxes, we configured them to send out an email
> when there was a component failure.
>  
> I''m trying to find the simplest way to do this with our ZFS box.
We''ve
> got a rudimentary log parser, but I don''t want to rely on it to
pick
> up items in the messages file. Surely there is some way to get an
> email alert when a disk pukes? I don''t want to re-invent the wheel
> (but am so far pretty surprised I''ve not turned up any such so
far).
I have been in the same situation, so I wrote a nagios plugin collecting
event from FMd via SNMP. The purpose is a little wider than what you
need (as it collects all FMd events) but if it can help see
http://solaris-fr.org/home/docs/serveur/smpfmd (in french, sorry)

If you need explanations due to language post here :)

Hope it helps,

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Thanks for the responses... it does sound like there is nothing built
in, so it''s a situation where you have to roll your own.
 
A colleague pointed me at this:
 
http://prefetch.net/code/fmadmnotifier
 
I''m testing it now; seems like it might do the trick nicely.
 
johnS
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Come on, there''s got to be a simple way to do this...
 
 
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