ZFS Monitor

[DrKK]

Either my forum and Google searching skills are severely atrophied, or no one has really officially asked this.

What's the deal with this "ZFS Monitor" for Android? Judging by appearances and apparent functionality, it looks like it would work just fine for the latest FreeNAS's. Looks like it connects via ssh, and issues its own terminal commands, reads the output, then GUI's what it finds in a (relatively) nice way. Aside from the security considerations (both exposing the WAN-side, presumably, and giving the dev who doesn't expose the source code potential access to your pw), it looks pretty sweet.

Does anyone have this in use on their FreeNAS box(es)?

 

[vegaman]

I probably wouldn't touch it because of security concerns.

So why not just check the monitoring emails (that I'm assuming you set up) on your smartphone?

 

[cyberjock]

I'd never even think about using a program like that. Security concerns or not. FreeNAS has its own monitoring system that is far better than what that stupid program can do.

 

[jgreco]

Oh come on, cj, tell us how you /really/ feel.

 

[DrKK]

So you're condoning just looking at the GUI in a browser on the phone? That's doable, but a little busy for a small ass phone, I thought. No?

I'm aware the program is "stupid", but it still might be minimal and nice to use for just a quick checkup on the phone. Meh, maybe not. One thing is clear though, CJ. Clearly, anyone that consistently listens to you has a more pleasant experience with their FreeNAS setup than anyone that doesn't. Maybe I'll just listen to you. Worked well so far ;)

 

[cyberjock]

Oh, I don't recommend checkin the GUI on your phone. In fact, if you've setup your server with email, SMART monitoring and SMART testing with regular scrubs you shouldn't ever have to log into the GUI. In the event that something goes wrong the server should email you. I have yet to see an example where that wasn't sufficient aside from using non-ECC RAM that went bad. The problem is that plenty of people don't setup those 4 things, so they find out something is wrong a month after they've lost a disk or two and have no redundancy left.

 

[DrKK]

OH, well, I certainly have all that set up with a vengeance. :)