Friendly reminder to test notifications for MDADM and Smartd

Posted on Fri 05 December 2014 in Software

MDADM (when devices are in the configuration):

mdadm --monitor --scan --test --oneshot

Smartd:

Add the following to your smartd.conf at the end of the "DEVICESCAN" lines you want to test:

-M test

After that, restart your smartd service.

Be sure to remove the "-M test" line afterwards so you won't get test notifications each time!