rsysnc task alerts or notifications or logging

[rwfitzy]

Haven't been able to find a definite answer if there is a way to have alerts for Rsync Tasks? I've read several posts where the solution is to write own script and use via cron jobs? I did setup an Rsync Task with user who has email, which is working well. But I forced it to fail and did not receive any FreeNAS alert or email to the user of the task.

 

[dlavigne]

Did you find a solution for this?

 

[rwfitzy]

No, works well, but no logging. Luckily my tasks are not critical.

 

[rwfitzy]

Revisiting this, it seems perhaps the email should be going out as a cron job. I see the entries in /etc/crontab and they have no redirect to /dev/null, only the error redirect:

Code:

[cron job snippet] 2>&1 |/usr/bin/logger -t rsync

Shouldn't the output of the cron job go to root user like daily output reports? Quiet is not selected for any of my rsync tasks and I see the output in the console while running.

 

[rwfitzy]

I setup more Rsync tasks that I need to monitor and did end up with a solution but requires Nagios. We use Nagios for monitoring anyway and it just happens to be in a Jail on the NAS. The Rsync task I have setup is to pull from production servers into a dataset on the FreeNAS server. I mounted the dataset in the iocage jail using iocage fstab.

The source servers run a daily mysql dump, so I created some check_file_age services in Nagios to check the file age is within a day. If someone would like any part of the configuration, just lmk.

One gotcha I ran into with Nagios to able to see the dump file since it has rwx------ permissions. I installed sudo to the jail to allow nagios to run check_file_age as root with no password.