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brighton_it

what do we have to do to get notification of failing storage?

2.7.2 CE: signed into GUI to check a rule. It's not there. It's in my backup xml, so I restore from the backup. It reboots and I receive an email notifying me of 'Bootup complete'. I check the logs and it's throwing constant disk errors.

So it's perfectly able to email me after a reboot, but it fails to mention that the mSATA drive is on it's last leg.
I'm frankly amazed it was even passing traffic. I quickly configured a replacement and swapped it out. The one with failing storage: it wouldn't even finish booting today.

So is there a way to get notified when this, or anything equally serious occurs?
I looked at Zabbix: seems pfSense packages only has an agent for an older version.
After reading recent CVEs for Zabbix, I don't want to run it at all, let alone an outdated version.

May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): RES: 71 04 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): ATA status: 71 (DRDY DF SERV ERR), error: 04 (ABRT )
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): FLUSHCACHE48. ACB: ea 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): Retrying command, 0 more tries remain
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): RES: 71 04 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): ATA status: 71 (DRDY DF SERV ERR), error: 04 (ABRT )
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error
May 2 14:40:07kernel(ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): FLUSHCACHE48. ACB: ea 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00

Posted May 5, 2025, 2:17 AM UTC

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