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S.M.A.R.T. for FreeBSD (smartmontools)

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:12:47 +0000

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring hdd, Analysis, and Reporting Technology).
This monitoring system support practically all hdd disks.
You have to install smartmontools for working with smart on FreeBSD. I suggest you have alredy installed it.

#smartctl -a /dev/ad1

This command show you many various indicatos about your disk (rate of hardware read errors, count of reallocated sectors, hdd temperature etc)

You also can run smartd daemon with will ask disks one time per 30minutes

#cp /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf #vim /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf: /dev/ad0 -S on -o on -a -I 194 -m admin@howtobsd.com /dev/ad4 -S on -o on -a -I 194 -m admin@howtobsd.com

add to /etc/rc.conf:

usr/local/etc/>echo 'smartd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf /usr/local/etc/>echo 'smartd_flags="-l local2 --interval=300"' >> /etc/rc.conf

#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd start

That is all!

Monitoring FreeBSD servers by the use of Munin

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:29:43 +0000

Article in a nutshell describes installation and configuration Munin on FreeBSD.
With munin you can monitor your servers very easy. Munin also presents output information in graphs through a web interface.

Install munin-main (Munin Collector):

# whereis munin-main munin-main: /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-main # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-main # make install clean

Install munin-node:

# whereis munin-node munin-node: /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-node # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-node # make install clean

#echo 'munin_node_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/munin-node.sh start

On default html-files with graphs destination in /usr/local/www/munin/ (You can chenge this in config file /usr/local/etc/munin/munin.conf)
You should configure your web-sever (for example apache) to this directory.
It’s all! Go to your server address and enjoy!!!