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Morra

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Registered: 2008-05-16

Posts: 39

RAID status in Conky

I wrote a tiny script to monitor the status of RAID arrays. It is written in awk and is meant to be used with conky. I have this in my conky config file:
RAID: ${execi 60 gawk -f path-to-the-script /proc/mdstat}

#!/bin/gawk -f
# This script checks the status of RAID arrays from /proc/mdstat

/_/ { state = "Warning!"; exit }
/blocks/ { state = $NF }

END { print state }

If everything is working correctly the ouput will be: "RAID: [UU]". It means that both drives are Up and running.
If there is something wrong with the drive it will give an error message: "RAID: [WARNING!]".

Maybe someone will find this usefull.

moberry

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Registered: 2008-08-08

Posts: 16

Re: RAID status in Conky

Thanks!

jsnlry

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Registered: 2012-06-26

Posts: 39

Re: RAID status in Conky

Thanks!

I have multiple RAIDs so I used the following command to check the status of a specific RAID:

${execi 60 cat /proc/mdstat | grep md126 -A 1 | gawk -f path-to-the-script --}

(replace md126 with the array you want to check)