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It is prudent to set up email notifications that alert you when a RAID is in a degraded state. For a Software RAID on Linux (/dev/md partitions) this is done as follows. |
It is prudent to set up email notifications that alert you when a RAID is in a degraded state. For a Software RAID on Linux (/dev/md partitions) this is done as follows. |
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Note 1: instructions are specific to OpenSuSE. |
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Note 2: on OpenSuSE Leap 42.1, you need to copy /etc/rc.d/mdadmd from OpenSuSE 13.1 before applying the steps below. |
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Revision as of 21:36, 18 August 2016
It is prudent to set up email notifications that alert you when a RAID is in a degraded state. For a Software RAID on Linux (/dev/md partitions) this is done as follows.
Note 1: instructions are specific to OpenSuSE.
Note 2: on OpenSuSE Leap 42.1, you need to copy /etc/rc.d/mdadmd from OpenSuSE 13.1 before applying the steps below.
- Go to YaST -> System -> /etc/sysconfig editor
- Within the sysconfig editor, select: System -> File systems -> Mdadm
- Set MDADM_MAIL (for OpenSuSE 13.1 this can be a comma-separated list, for OpenSuSE 11.1 it must be a single email address)
- Set MDADM_SEND_MAIL_ON_START to 'yes'
- Click 'Ok' and quit YaST
- From the command line do
insserv mdadmd /etc/rc.d/mdadmd start
- You should receive a test email for each RAID partition.