Monitoring zpool with email alert «Solaris 11 Express»

Crontab job to scrub zpool once a week and check zpool status

45 3 * * 0 /usr/sbin/zpool scrub MydataZpool 45 3 * * 1 /usr/sbin/zpool scrub rpool 15 8 * * * /pathToperlScript/Zpool_check

Perl script to send email alert when zpool is not healthy

«Zpool_check»

#!/usr/bin/perl my $command_output = `zpool status -x`; if ($command_output eq "all pools are healthy\n") { print "all pools are healthy"; exit; } else { print "zpool not healthy"; $to='MYEMAIL@MYPROVIDER.com'; $from= 'alert@MYDOMAIN.COM'; $subject='zfs alert'; open(MAIL, "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"); ## Mail Header print MAIL "To: $to\n"; print MAIL "From: $from\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n"; ## Mail Body print MAIL "Zfs alert \n"; print MAIL $command_output; close(MAIL); }

Configure sendmail if not already done...

Add this line to “/etc/mail/cf/cf/sendmail.mc”

DOMAIN(`solaris-generic')dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `SMTP.MYPROVIDER.com') define(`confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST', `mailhost$?m.$m$.')dnl