janusfox 🍅Mar 8

Well, now that I've experienced some sort of disk failure on my NAS, I'm sort of annoyed that I did not set up any sort of notification system.

This is just a standard Ubuntu box sitting in the office. It doesn't have any sort of mail or cloud integration setup.

What would you recommend I use for alerting?

Anyway, I suspect a drive controller failure. It connects but the data is garbage. Can't even get SMART out of it.

Show threaddimmfoxMar 8

@janusfox email is a pretty standard one, but also https://ntfy.sh/ is quite nice (self host able options available) since you can send notifications with just one curl command.

I just have it set up to send me the output of "zpool status" every week. You could be more fancy and parse to see if there is a failure and only then send stuff out but oh well...

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ntfy lets you send push notifications via scripts from any computer or phone. Made with ❤ by Philipp C. Heckel, Apache License 2.0, source at https://heckel.io/ntfy.

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Show threadjanusfox 🍅
@dimmfox Ooo, now that's interesting, this was the 2026 I was hoping for
Mar 8 at 2:37pmWeb