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Jenkins + smartctl + Pushover: Drive Monitoring w/Push Notifications and Jenkins Job History

Jenkins + smartctl + Pushover: Drive Monitoring w/Push Notifications and Jenkins Job History

Could you use smartd to send emails via Postfix/sendmail on your Linux box? Sure. Could you use Jenkins to trigger individual smartctl queries and then tell Pushover to send a push notification to your devices saying that you have a drive failure? Also, yes.

Replicating a Dataset with FreeNAS 11.2

Replicating a Dataset with FreeNAS 11.2

FreeNAS makes replicating datasets or ZVOLs easy! In this example, we'll walk through how to set this up on FreeNAS 11.2 (new UI).

Expanding an LVM Across Disks

Expanding an LVM Across Disks

Here's how to expand an LVM across multiple disks and grow the underlying partitions.