Posts from 2005

Getting failure notifications with Veritas Volume Manager

One of the cool and often overlooked features in Veritas Volume Manager is the failure notification mechanism. This facility provides automated notifications when problems are detected with Veritas managed disks, plexes, subdisks and volumes. These notifications are active by default, and will generate an e-mail to the user root each time a failure is detected. These e-mail notifications take the following form: Since e-mails will be sent to the root user by default, it is often beneficial to create a root alias in the /etc/aliases file: If you would like messages to be sent to a user other than root, you can add additional users to the line that starts vxrelocd in the vxvm-recover init script: I have been using this facility for years to get advanced notifications, which has helped me avoid disaster on more than one occassion.