[Beowulf] S.M.A.R.T usage in big clusters

[Daniel Fernandez]

El dom, 22-02-2004 a las 17:04, Felix Rauch escribió:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Joseph Mack wrote:
> > How do you get your information out of smartd?
> >
> > I've found output in syslog - presumably I can grep for this.
> 
> I've done this for a while to get temperature information from a
> server in our small group server room (together with MRTG we have a
> nice history of temperature to show to the facilities people when the
> temperature was too high again...).
> 
> The problem with greping for smartd information in the syslog file is
> that there is no current information after a log rotation. That's why
> I changed our cron jobs. Now I use a small setuid-root program which
> starts "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" and then greps for the temperature.
> 
> - Felix
> 
> ---
> Felix Rauch                      | Email: rauch at inf.ethz.ch
> Institute for Computer Systems   | Homepage: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~rauch/
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> 
> 

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Joseph Mack wrote:
> > How do you get your information out of smartd?
> >
> > I've found output in syslog - presumably I can grep for this.
> 
> I've done this for a while to get temperature information from a
> server in our small group server room (together with MRTG we have a
> nice history of temperature to show to the facilities people when the
> temperature was too high again...).
> 
> The problem with greping for smartd information in the syslog file is
> that there is no current information after a log rotation. That's why
> I changed our cron jobs. Now I use a small setuid-root program which
> starts "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" and then greps for the temperature.
> 
> - Felix
> 
> ---
> Felix Rauch                      | Email: rauch at inf.ethz.ch
> Institute for Computer Systems   | Homepage:
http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~rauch/
> ETH Zentrum / RZ H18             | Phone: ++41 1 632 7489
> CH - 8092 Zuerich / Switzerland  | Fax:   ++41 1 632 1307
> 

On the other hand, is possible to deviate smartd log to a specific file
and check it regularly when it's updated, adding this parameter to
smartd:

        -l facility

Of course some syslog.conf modifying will be needed to instruct syslogd
to log on a specific file from the "facility" specified.

        facility.* /var/log/smartd.log

Also, the '-M' coupled with the 'exec' directive should work, a script
could be run to update some flags for example:

        -M exec /usr/bin/smartd_alert.sh

-- 
Daniel Fernandez <daniel at labtie.mmt.upc.es>
Centre tecnològic de transferència de calor - CTTC
www.cttc.upc.edu
c/ Colom nº11
UPC Campus Industrials Terrassa , Edifici TR4

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