Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, On 06/11/2012 10:03 AM, Christian Völker wrote: > Hey, > > drbd seems to work mostly really fine. > > But sometimes issues occur for whatever reason. So my device went on the > secondary last night to "diskless". > > Well, it didn't do any harm as the primary still was fine. > > My question now is how you monitor your drbd devices? I din't have a > snmptrap device running- email would be fine. > > Have you created your own script running frequently monitoring the > /dev/drbd node? > > Or any other ideas? monitoring is *essential* when running DRBD, else you will find yourself in a bad place at some point. I think most people cobble up a nagios plugin to fit their specific fears ;-) You can easily leverage /proc/drbd or better yet, drbd-overview.pl to get good monitoring input. Some distributions (Debian for one I believe), present the information from the latter via the status action of the init script. HTH, Felix