About:
raidmonitor monitors your Linux RAID devices using /proc/mdstat. It can send you mail when something goes wrong, or show the current status in a window.

Author:
Manuel Clos <llanero (at) users (dot) sourceforge (dot) net> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://raidmonitor.sf.net

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[Development Status]		2 - Pre-Alpha
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		System :: Diagnostics, System :: Monitoring

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 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.0.1	10-May-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] email
by tasty - May 10th 2004 04:08:52

"Todo: Daemon that send you a mail when something goes wrong"

FYI: mdadm already does this

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[»] Re: email
by tasty - May 10th 2004 04:11:27


> "Todo: Daemon that send you a mail

> when something goes wrong"

>

> FYI: mdadm already does this


and raidmon

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[»] Re: email
by Manuel Clos - May 10th 2004 16:49:09


> % "Todo: Daemon that send you a

> mail

> % when something goes wrong"

> % FYI: mdadm already does this

> and raidmon

Yes! I use mdadm myself, and it does the job very well. I have not tried raidmon, but I like the idea of beeping while there is an error. Raidmonitor is not meant to replace those programs if you already use/like them.

I wrote a pccts grammar to parse /proc/mdstat because it seems the natural way of reading structured text. Once I got that working, I started the GUI app to show the status.

While mdadm seems to do a pretty accurate parsing of /proc/mdstat, raidmon just uses grep. But I liked the idea of raidmon beeping until exhausted. And a GUI to "look" at the devices status. So it is all into raidmonitor. I do not claim to have wrote a better app. I just enjoyed writing it.

Perhaps I don't explained too well in the homepage, I will update the Todo section with more ideas.

o Complete the GUI to be more useful
o Really write the daemon
o Custom notification (beep, mail, ...)

And in the long term
o Include raidmonitor into a bigger project "Server Tools"
o Use a Notification System instead of a hardcoded one, this is, configure each notification from a central GUI.
o Be able to "ping" every daemon (from servertools) to assure it is running. Surely using DBUS, which by the way will provide activation.

And perhaps you can tell me what feature you miss from mdadm/raidmon if any.

This all sounds like vaporware, this is because I started with a small step, doing something real.

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