[mythtv-users] What lessons can I learn from this?

[Joseph Fry]

>
>> >> And does mythtv have any notification / alert options that could of
>>> been
>>> >> set to
>>> >> notify me about the failed recordings?
>>>
>>> > Well, the first lesson, the one I can help you with, is to always
>>> check your
>>> > system is functional each day.
>>>
>>> Really? Is it 1993 again?
>>>
>>
>> Hilarious!
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, some previous discussion here:
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-March/328923.html
>>
>>
>> Some great stuff there.
>>
>> Really wish I were a developer, I think it would be relatively trivial to
>> add support for error detection and reporting to mythtv.
>>
>> My vision is that every check is an independent script... the community
>> can supply the scripts for whatever they want to monitor and we would
>> eventually get a large collection of scripts to monitor all kinds of
>> things.  For example, there might be a script to check on the status of
>> your NFS share, another to check the status of an MD raid, another for a
>> Dell PERC raid, another for Ext4 volume fragmentation, etc.
>>
>> Each script can be triggered by one or more of a variety of events that
>> the user could select.  For example, some checks might only run when the
>> backend starts, others daily, hourly, etc.  Then you could select from a
>> list of triggers that the backend can generate... recording complete,
>> recording started, backend wakeup, etc.
>>
>> Finally you can configure the reporting options for each script... have a
>> popup on all your frontends, get an email, send the error to a syslog
>> server, log it to a file, whatever.
>>
>>  Maybe someday I'll try my hand at writing some code.
>>
>
> Most of what you described is in Nagios. The MythTV specific stuff could
> be done fairly easily in Nagios as well. A bit heavy for this purpose, but
> definitely possible.
>

Not sure if Nagios can be triggered by the backend, which would be a
primary reason to do this.  Perhaps some sort of interface to nagios could
be used.. but I don't think that alerting is really that complicated a task.
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