Hi. From my past experience with other file storage servers, most of them had some kind of basic SMTP email notification for events like disk performance (ie: temp, usage thershold, SMART errors...), errors in the unraid OS, disk/share quota alerts, etc... events which would be useful to know immediately if they were to occur. Their might be a add-on for this, but it would be good it if was native as part of the unraid OS. Thanks.

Totally agree. I would hedge my bets this will be something to come in the 5.x release some time.

 

BubbaQ's recent tool on unraid status opens the door for check scripts or a nagios plugin add on.

 

Personally I am planning to use nagios as an addon with an smtp agent for outbound messages.

I'll also have reporting via syslog and a special log checker script to send unaccounted syslog messages via the smtp agent also.

I agree also. I am using UNRaid more every day and have several boxes in remote locations where I don't see them to know that I have a problem. The email notification feature would be great.

 

thanks,

Phil

I'll pitch in my .02c.

 

I'd *love* to see some email notifications. Parity Errors, Smart Failures, 90% or > capacity used. My plans are to set this in the basement, and just plain forget about it. Use it for a few minor shell sessions, and file serving. I'd prefer to not have to think about it's status, and just be notified on failure. (Like my exchange server at work that just failed a backup )

 

Thanks for the product, from my (limited to 1 day) experience, it's great.

When unRAID 5.0 comes out I'll work on getting nagios working.

This would provide all the frame work for local monitoring and remote notification.

 

The issue I have at the moment is a clean way of dropping in packages and starting them up.

So I'm kinda just waiting around to see what the next level of interface brings.

Another option here, if you have another server running, is Munin. Install the Munin node code on unRAID and have another box do the graphing, notifications, etc. unRAID could be the Munin server, too, if someone wanted to go that far, I suppose.

 

I'm investigating how to package in Slackware now, so that I can build munin-node code for the unRAID box. I've already got a munin server here that can do alerting on thresholds (disk almost full, for example), etc. Plus it gives you the ability to graph anything that the box can find out. Throughput, HDD temps, the list is endless.

 

Nagios isn't a bad option either, though Icinga should probably be considered, as it's quite clearly a more actively developed fork of Nagios. Nagios is pure monitoring/alerting, whereas Munin is alerting/graphing.