Hard Drive Failure Email Alerts

[umbernaut]

I was surprised to find google did not easily return an answer on a simple question like: "linux hard drive failure email alerts" or "ubuntu alerts for hard drive failure."

Sure, it gave me stuff for non-RAID setups. I got info on setting up alerts in webmin, but I need email alerts for drives failing before they totally fail, with a physical RAID controller in the server, etc. (also running LVM if that matters).

I did find this:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...e-failure.html

mcelog seems straight-forward and easy. Also, I've done stuff with SNMP traps before too.

Question: anyone have any other good solutions? This is a "headless" server, with webmin on it.

I just want to get an email when a drive starts flaking before it totally flakes.

[ThePol1]

Try the Smartmontools. Here are a few links that helped me out:
http://techgurulive.com/2009/04/08/h...smartmontools/

http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitorin...smartmontools/

http://myminutes.wordpress.com/2011/...emote-address/

I installed the following and used my Gmail account to send notification emails:
Smartmontools
bsd-mailx
mailutils
ssmtp