Am 20.05.2013 22:27, schrieb Peter Robinson:
You still have to configure it so doing a "yum install
your-mta-of-choice" isn't hard and in fact in all environments I know
of that have auto monitoring and alerting of drive failures configure
it automatically as part of a kickstart or puppet deployment and use
snmp rather than email to deal with that and have active alert
systems
you refer to enterprise environments
i live in both, real enterprise and SOHO
> if a disk dies it is nice to have it in syslog but
> it is useless if you see it days later while a mail
> from crond is more or less real time
You still have to configure all of that and whether a MTA is installed
automatically or not doesn't really make it work out of the box.
you have *ntohing* to configure
you only need to edit *one line* in /etc/aliases
everybody who knows unix-like systems knows this
> until you watched the event in the syslog other
> people have replaced the drive long ago, where i
> work it takes 3-5 hours to get a spare drive
Where I work the manufacturer ships a person with the new drive and
they deal with it. It's a mute point though, auto alerting whether by
mail or snmp needs other configuration of which a "yum install MTA" or
adding of a MTA into a kickstart isn't exactly a hard task.
nobody needs kickstart on single machines in a SOHO environment