Monitoring your unRAID remotely - LCDProc, LCD, Slimserver, Nagios, Email, Beeps

[WeeboTech]

Just to get an idea, What interest is there in remote status alerts for your unRAID server.

 

I've been thinking of an LCDproc environment to present a remote visual overview.

 

With the Crystalfontz lcd it would be pretty easy.

http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/635/index.html

http://www.crystalfontz.com/product/XE634BK-YMC-KU.html

http://www.crystalfontz.com/product/XES635BK-YYE-KU.html

 

If you have slimserver and a squeezebox, it may be possible to send remote display messages.

If you have a slimp3, squeecebox or later, please respond with your model.

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/HardwareComparison

 

With the ROKU soundbridge, it can accept remote connections via TCP/IP-telnet calls making it capable of getting status messages too.

It can also interface with Slimserver.

http://www.roku.com/products_soundbridge.php

 

http://www.nagios.org/

 

In addition there are the tried and true.. beeps and email. (some of which are implementable already).

 

[jimwhite]

I have the Squeezebox V3

 

 

[heffe2001]

Where's the I already have a Crystalfontz LCD?

 

[WeeboTech]

Where's the I already have a Crystalfontz LCD?

I just added it.

[heffe2001]

The one I have is a CFA632-YFB-KU.    http://www.crystalfontz.com/product/CFA632-YFB-KU.html

[Ropo]

I can LCD (I can buy - if UnRaid support this - Crystalfontz LCD with keypad )  and configuration through web interface. 

I can e-mail notification and configuration through web interface. 

 

 

Family Squeezebox's is nice.

Nagios is interesting.

 

Very thanks for implement it.

I may donate any $$$ if these features will be paid.

 

 

[WeeboTech]

WOW, just came across this LCD recently. Cost effective too!

 

http://www.mini-box.com/PicoLCD-4X20-Sideshow

 

[prostuff1]

looks interesting.  I would actually love to get e-mail notifications for certain things.  It would be best if these could be configured so that messages showed up as often or as little as you like. 

 

Personally i would like to get e-mail notifications every 3-4 hours from say 8am to 8pm.  A general message of system stuff could be sent out like this.  If anything catastrophic was to happen and an e-mail could still be sent out then of course that would come whenever it likes.  Perhaps something like if SMART came back with an error that e-mail would be sent immediately.  I guess some "categories" need to be made of what constitutes a message that needs to be sent right away and waht ones done.

 

 

If some of this is incoherent please forgive me, i am in class right now and trying to type this (so bored)

[RobJ]

Sorry for an off-topic post here, but couldn't help wondering about the way the percentages are calculated in the poll above.  You will notice that (at the current time) there are 28 voters, of which 25 have checked the box for interest in Email Notifications, resulting in a percentage of 52.1% !

 

They are using a divisor of Total Boxes Checked, instead of Total Voters.  I can't find anything meaningful in the current number shown.  It appears whoever implemented the poll feature of this bulletin board set it up for radio type selection, and never updated it for check boxes.

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[Joe L.]

Sorry for an off-topic post here, but couldn't help wondering about the way the percentages are calculated in the poll above.  You will notice that (at the current time) there are 28 voters, of which 25 have checked the box for interest in Email Notifications, resulting in a percentage of 52.1% !

 

They are using a divisor of Total Boxes Checked, instead of Total Voters.  I can't find anything meaningful in the current number shown.  It appears whoever implemented the poll feature of this bulletin board set it up for radio type selection, and never updated it for check boxes.

[/offtopic]

New math? 

[WeeboTech]

People are allowed to place up to 4 votes.

The percentages seem to be based on total number of votes.

I wanted to see the curve of choices and not just a single selection.

It's pretty obvious at this point what people are interested in (I knew this going in)

The reason for alternatives is in the event mail does not get through.

Plus I plan to work on some display status options of my own and I wanted to see interest level.

 

EDIT... to add to this..

 

If unraid notify or some other daemon were to handle the status inquiry and data population.

External plugins could be called to deal with the notification process.

[Ropo]

WOW, just came across this LCD recently. Cost effective too!

 

http://www.mini-box.com/PicoLCD-4X20-Sideshow

 

 

Nice and low cost LCD . But for technique which is in Vista - Sideshow.

I have Vista and for my mobile device I have BETA Windows SideShow Gadgets.

 

 

Drivers for picoLCD http://www.picolcd.com/drivers/

[Ropo]

Any advance?

[unraided]

Hi WeeboTech. Have you made any progress on the LCDProc project? I know it is a stale thread, but I would like to get my 16x2 display driven by the 'HD44780' chip via a Parallel Port going to monitor my unraid server. Thanks.

 

Just to get an idea, What interest is there in remote status alerts for your unRAID server.

 

I've been thinking of an LCDproc environment to present a remote visual overview.

 

With the Crystalfontz lcd it would be pretty easy.

http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/635/index.html

http://www.crystalfontz.com/product/XE634BK-YMC-KU.html

http://www.crystalfontz.com/product/XES635BK-YYE-KU.html

 

If you have slimserver and a squeezebox, it may be possible to send remote display messages.

If you have a slimp3, squeecebox or later, please respond with your model.

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/HardwareComparison

 

With the ROKU soundbridge, it can accept remote connections via TCP/IP-telnet calls making it capable of getting status messages too.

It can also interface with Slimserver.

http://www.roku.com/products_soundbridge.php

 

http://www.nagios.org/

 

In addition there are the tried and true.. beeps and email. (some of which are implementable already).

 

[AwesomeD]

Any progress on this? The picoLCD looks pretty cool.

[marcusone]

Any progress on this? The picoLCD looks pretty cool.

I never got the picolcd to work well. I bought another similar product. When I dig it back out I'll post it.

 

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[theone]

Squeezebox Radio

[lainie]

For those interested in Nagios, let me add that SNMPc is so much better.

 

Nagios will send you a message when something goes down & then continually send messages every 5 minutes until it comes back up. SNMPc will send you one message when something goes down & one message when that something comes back up. May not seem like a big deal, but if you have the alerts going to your phone (email or text) & are away somewhere (a meeting, a dinner, out of town) & your phone goes off every five minutes... Not fun getting all those alerts or deleting them later with Nagios.

[jupilerman]

I'm looking for something like this.

[PeterB]

Squeezebox Radio

 

Wow, that's a good idea!  I have three squeeze devices around the house - it would even be possible to give a spoken notification!

[joe90]

squeezebox classic and softsqueeze

[ajeffco]

Crystalfonts looks pretty slick.

 

For e-mail / alerting, I'm using a package much like nagios called Xymon http://www.xymon.com/.  Much easier to configure and write scripts for than Nagios.

[ajeffco]

For those interested in Nagios, let me add that SNMPc is so much better.

 

Nagios will send you a message when something goes down & then continually send messages every 5 minutes until it comes back up. SNMPc will send you one message when something goes down & one message when that something comes back up. May not seem like a big deal, but if you have the alerts going to your phone (email or text) & are away somewhere (a meeting, a dinner, out of town) & your phone goes off every five minutes... Not fun getting all those alerts or deleting them later with Nagios.

 

Isn't the alerting repeat configurable configurable?  As is the ability to configure service dependencies, so that if it stops responding to ping you don't get network service alerts?

[lainie]

For those interested in Nagios, let me add that SNMPc is so much better.

 

Nagios will send you a message when something goes down & then continually send messages every 5 minutes until it comes back up. SNMPc will send you one message when something goes down & one message when that something comes back up. May not seem like a big deal, but if you have the alerts going to your phone (email or text) & are away somewhere (a meeting, a dinner, out of town) & your phone goes off every five minutes... Not fun getting all those alerts or deleting them later with Nagios.

 

Isn't the alerting repeat configurable configurable?  As is the ability to configure service dependencies, so that if it stops responding to ping you don't get network service alerts?

 

It is possible this is now an option. I have not used Nagios in several years. Was a huge annoyance to the IT team where I worked about 5 years years ago.

[drawz]

This would add a really nice professional touch to a lot of unraid servers. Think QNAP/Thecus/etc-style NAS. I would buy any module this is designed for.