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

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Mon Jun 17 20:40:55 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

>
> >> 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.

Tom
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