16 March 2013

Email notification when a drive in software RAID fails

Debian - Ubuntu

Edit /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and add the following line:

MAILADDR example@example.com

You can also optionally configure the sending email address:

MAILFROM mdadm@example.com

Important is that "AUTOCHECK" in the file /etc/default/mdadm is set to "true":

# grep AUTOCHECK= /etc/default/mdadm
AUTOCHECK=true