watchdog

Automatically conduct, monitor, and report on health of disks, ZFS clusters, and UPS hardware to maintain your physical server.

Getting Started

Use the example below in order to download, compile, and run the app on your server.

git clone https://github.com/dantheman213/watchdog /tmp/watchdog
cd /tmp/watchdog
make
make install

# edit me before continuing
nano /etc/watchdog/config.json

systemctl enable watchdog
systemctl start watchdog

Features

• Run S.M.A.R.T. short test on all your compatible physical disks on your custom schedule.

• Run S.M.A.R.T. long test on all your compatible physical disks on your custom schedule.

• Run ZFS scrub on all your pools on your custom schedule.

• Test and review UPS health on your custom schedule.

• Generate reports and have it sent to you via email on your custom schedule.

Review Logs

systemctl status watchdog
tail -f /var/log/watchdog.log

Configuration

Email Reports

Reports can be sent out via email by modifying config.json and modifying the array as you see fit. For day of week, use (0-6) to denote Sunday-Saturday. For time, use military time format (e.g. 23:20 to indicate 11:20 PM or 00:00 to indicate midnight.

Enable SMTP access to a Gmail Account

Create and use a free Gmail account to send your email alerts from. Learn more:

• https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en

• https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?p=BadCredentials

UPS

watchdog only supports CyberPower UPS hardware at present. The pwrstat utility must be installed and have the ability to detect your UPS.

PowerPanel

CyperPower's PowerPanel software also known as pwrstat can be installed by visiting here and following the directions.