Idea #5607: Create panel applet/program that monitors RAID and warns if failure

Written by zooounds the 24 Mar 08 at 19:30. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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A nice graphical warning when your RAID fails would be really, really nice. Not like now:

cat /proc/mdstat

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Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 19:49

Now, very few people use RAID.

But we should an application that can monitor S.M.A.R.T and RAID and warn on failure, and show disk information, file systems, volume labels, disk partitions, etc.
Allow to run fsck, mount/unmount, etc.

maltes wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 22:19

Monitoring SMART and actually deducting useful information from it is a daunting task.

Auzy wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 23:40

Eldmannen, thats only cause nobody knows how to get it installed. Theres still no easy way to get raid running from memory during install (at least software raid).

+1

bigredradio wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 04:19

Auzy, That is a problem of user knowledge. I think spending a little time reading a How-to on RAID would solve your issue.

Personally I like the idea of a RAID monitor. Heck, I can get a widget that tells me the weather, but can't get one to tell me if I am having disk problems?

I think this is a good idea and I would be willing to help.

Auzy wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 04:33

Yeah, thats what I'm saying though, its a great idea..

But still, users shouldn't need a manual to get software/Hardware raid going (in OSX, full control of the raid is built into the normal disk utility). So thats another problem I'd love to see addressed. The moment you need to pick up a manual to do something, something needs improvements.

Just was bringing it to attention (I think there has been a few ideas posted on it anyway).

zooounds wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 15:13

I have tried do this myself - but it failed beacuse I have no experience with GTK+ and I found no good documentation about using GTK+ from perl or python.

andersja wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 17:48

I agree with bigredradio: it'd be nice to have a small widget similar to the ones you now get for wifi or bluetooth or indeed the weather :-)

zooounds wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 18:39

Integrate with SMART is a good idea.

zooounds wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 13:25

For the record, I would donate money to whoever wants to do this applet.

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