[plug] re: RAID5 & Hot Spares

[Denis Brown]

At 16:02 12/06/2003 +0800, Brad wrote:
>Craig Ringer wrote:
>
>>unfortunately, the smartd isn't so great. I just run smartctl 
>>periodically and look at the output, since I no longer trust automatic 
>>monitoring to know what to look for as a failure indicator.
>
>I get a smartctl -a, sensors, du -h and ls -la archivemailbox
>E-mailed to me every morning.
>Has proven most useful. I have also just installed nut to monitor
>all the UPS's and get a live log of that on the webserver.
>
>This office automation thing is finally getting together here.

Sounds like a nice PLUG talk in the making :-)   And / or a Linmagau article?

Cheers,
Denis