I was playing with free version today and had a parity drive and a single data drive. 

I wanted to know what happened if disk went.  So i tried to replicate a disk crash by pulling hot swap disk out.  There was no audio warning or any think.

 

I was expecting it to be like some adaptec controller cards where the pc speaker lets out warning noise.

 

If the mp3 disk failed, you'd know cos the share would be unaavilable.  If it were share not accessed often it could be a while before you detect fault unless you login to gui daily.

 

So surely theres some sort of warning.  What about email notification?

 

 

Yes you can setup email alerts...below is snipped from another thread.  A search should have found this for you.

 

Yes used UnMENU and check out this particular post.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5568.msg66479#msg66479

 

Basically you install once the InfoZip and the compiler. However do not set them to reinstall on reboot. After you install those install [mail and ssmtp] and [unRAID Status Alert sent hourly by e-mail] which of course you have to make sure after you install them set up their settings and make sure you click the Install after reboot.

 

After you get everything setup in the command line basically copy and paste this and it will give you a test message to your email account that you setup.

 

echo -e "Subject: a test\n\nThis is the email body." | ssmtp -d root

 

If you use a gmail account the email settings are basically setup for that already. Just change your account info and leave everything else as is. I think in the Send email every hour I set it to NO because I didn't want a status OK every hour at :47 after the hour.

so theres a package to install for it.

This seems like a feature that most people would want. why doesn't it have support for this built into the app.

 

Going by those posts, it looks complicated to install.

 

Where does one get these packages from?

 

Dan

It is dead simple to install actually.  Start with unMENU and then unMENU will do everything else for you.

 

To install unMENU read through this thread. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5568.0 

Yeah simple to install. Just remember before you really judge like I did. There is a lot that goes into the core of this system because the develpers took their time to build the system in such a way that it simply works and works well.

 

Now there are a lot of devs that find ways to well make it work a bit different with plugins. Plugins of course expand the way the system works. Now there are several people here, which I'd like to say I'm trying to be that well answer questions and help you all they can just to keep paying it forward because the system works very well.

 

The difficulty of installing a working Warning system is this simple.

1. Install unMENU which is basically one single file that you drop into your flash card and then you run a single line of code in your command prompt which installs the plugin.

2. From command line after its installed you type uu and it starts up.

3. http://tower:8080 which allows you to login to the new or I should say other WebGui app

4. Visit the Plugin area

5. Install the Infozip plugin

6. Install the Complier plugin

7. Install the ssmtp and click the reinstall after reboot option.

8. Install the unraid status alert plugin and click the reinstall after reboot option.

 

Of course make sure you change your settings to whatever you want them to be while your tinkering with the ssmtp and the unraid status. While your at it you might as well install the monthly parity app and of course click the install after reboot while you are at it.

 

Now after your all setup and you start a parity check for the fist time you will get an email that says something or another like so.

 

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Parity CHECK/RESYNC in progress 20.3% complete, est finish in 524.3 minutes 49484 kb/s.

 

What does that have to do with anything? Well its showing that even the smallest things that do not appear 100% normal it will contact you to let you know something is off. Sure its technically normal, but the first time I recieved it I thought HUH? At least I know its doing its thing.

 

The system should check every :47 after the hour. 0047, 0147, 0247, 0347 ............ If/when it finds an error you will be sent an email.

so theres a package to install for it.

This seems like a feature that most people would want. why doesn't it have support for this built into the app.

 

 

I concur, pretty basic functionality which should be built in.  The notify script is pretty easy to install,  even if it does seem daunting to a novice.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2470.0

Thanks for the clear instructions. Unfortunately when I get to installing ssmtp with unMenu the download doesn't seem to work. I get a bunch of error messages, starting with "(MD5 of existing downloaded file NOT matched - download may be corrupted or download URL no longer valid.)". The only option I'm given is to re-download the file but I keep getting the same error.

I'm certainly not an expert but it would seem that unMenu is pointing to an old version of this package (ssmtp_2.61.orig.tar.gz, when in http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/ the oldest version is 2.62). Any suggestions on how to get around this problem? Thanks!

Thanks for the clear instructions. Unfortunately when I get to installing ssmtp with unMenu the download doesn't seem to work. I get a bunch of error messages, starting with "(MD5 of existing downloaded file NOT matched - download may be corrupted or download URL no longer valid.)". The only option I'm given is to re-download the file but I keep getting the same error.

I'm certainly not an expert but it would seem that unMenu is pointing to an old version of this package (ssmtp_2.61.orig.tar.gz, when in http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/ the oldest version is 2.62). Any suggestions on how to get around this problem? Thanks!

I'll take a look later after dinner.  (and I'll update the link to whatever version is available now)

 

Joe L.

I took a look.

 

Apparently you have not updated your unmenu in a while.

 

The current mail-ssmtp package does download the newer 2.62 version of ssmtp.  You are apparently using an older version if it still references 2.61.

 

I had updated the package to download 2.62 back on June 30th.  There have been about 20 or so other updates and additions since then as well.

 

So, use the "Check for updates" button on the user-scrpts page and then update your unMENU installation by pressing the Install Updates" button. 

 

Joe L.

Thanks Joe, I had missed the fact that while it is still version 1.3, we are now at revision 139! As always appreciated your help - problem solved!