[08:18] morning boys and girls. [13:00] hey guys, I need to configure disk health monitoring on my home server, i really want to know when the disk array might be in trouble. [13:01] what is it, mdadm? [13:01] I am wondering what the best solution would be, i will check in on it from time to time, and a web ui or someting would be handy [13:01] daftykins: no, it's a btrfs array, 4x6TB disks [13:01] no idea then [13:02] and 1x1TB OS disk [13:02] darn,, [13:02] it's been running for, maybe 2 years now,, [13:02] * daftykins has a hardware controller that emails weekly verification results [13:02] so i really need to know the disks are healthy, or if /when they need replacing [13:03] well for the disks you'd want to just monitor their SMART output from smartctl [13:03] could script something up that runs the command against each disk and emails it to you easily enough [13:03] well, lets start underneath btrfs, smart. web or scheduled email or other api call with weekly/daily stats and results [13:04] scripted up as i say with smartctl'd work [13:04] is there anything simple and pre-configured, drop in installable from repos? [13:04] scripting == maintenance, and who has time for that. [13:05] well the command hasn't changed since i started using it, so i can't think of a maintenance angle beyond reading the emails [13:05] in fairness had you wanted a time saving setup the home non-LTS server with btrfs was not it (: [13:07] haha, fair jab [13:10] i honestly have no idea if there's anything automated, i'd think just being able to store and view the system logs would be handy for any btrfs malarkey, then email'd "smartctl -i /dev/sdx" for each disk for manual perusal [13:11] no idea if there are any btrfs maintenance commands too, as what my hardware controller does is a full verify sweep across the volume checking the parity data every week, which is also a nice intensive task to provoke a bad sector being found if there is one