Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, Am 06/11/2012 10:07 AM, schrieb Felix Frank: > 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. I wrote a plugin to monitor DRBD. It can be downloaded from here: http://download.bloonix.net/sources/bloonix-plugins-drbd-0.1.tar.gz Cheers, Jonny