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+title: OpenBSD softraid monitoring
+date: 2021-04-30
+description: How to properly check a software raid array on OpenBSD
+tags:
+ - OpenBSD
+---
+
+## Introduction
+
+I have reinstalled my nas recently from gentoo to OpenBSD and was amazed once again at how elegant OpenBSD is. The softraid setup was simple thanks to the wonderful [faq](https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid). The only thing I changed is that I used a raid5 with 3 disks, but the last line of the faq about the monitoring left the matter as an exercise to the reader.
+
+## Softraid monitoring
+
+I had a hard time figuring out how to properly monitor the state of the array without relying on parsing the output of `bioctl` but at last here it is in all its elegance :
+{{< highlight sh >}}
+root@nas:~# sysctl hw.sensors.softraid0
+hw.sensors.softraid0.drive0=online (sd4), OK
+{{< /highlight >}}
+
+I manually failed one drive (with `bioctl -O /dev/sd2a sd4`) then rebuilt it (with `bioctl -R /dev/sd2a sd4)`... then failed two drives in order to have examples of all possible outputs. Here they are if you are interested :
+{{< highlight sh >}}
+root@nas:~# sysctl hw.sensors.softraid0
+hw.sensors.softraid0.drive0=degraded (sd4), WARNING
+{{< /highlight >}}
+
+{{< highlight sh >}}
+root@nas:~# sysctl hw.sensors.softraid0
+hw.sensors.softraid0.drive0=rebuilding (sd4), WARNING
+{{< /highlight >}}
+
+{{< highlight sh >}}
+root@nas:~# sysctl -a |grep -i softraid
+hw.sensors.softraid0.drive0=failed (sd4), CRITICAL
+{{< /highlight >}}
+
+## Nagios check
+
+I am still using nagios on my personal infrastructure, here is the check I wrote if you are interested :
+
+{{< highlight perl >}}
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+###############################################################################
+# \_o< WARNING : This file is being managed by ansible! >o_/ #
+# ~~~~ ~~~~ #
+###############################################################################
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+##### Arguments processing #####
+use Getopt::Long;
+my $diskname;
+my $usage = "Usage: $0 [OPTIONS]
+OPTIONS:
+ -d DEVICE_NAME, --device-name=DEVICE_NAME : device name to inspect.";
+GetOptions("device-name=s" => \$diskname) or die $usage;
+die "You must provide a device-name\n\n$usage" unless $diskname;
+
+##### Softraid Check #####
+my %output = (
+ "code" => 3,
+ "status" => "UNKNOWN",
+);
+if (`uname` eq "OpenBSD\n") {
+ $output{status} = $1 if `sysctl hw.sensors.$diskname.drive0` =~ /=(.*)$/ or do { $!=3; die "UNKNOWN Failed to get sysctl hw.sensors.$diskname.drive0" };
+ $output{code} = 0 if ($output{status} =~ /OK$/);
+ $output{code} = 1 if ($output{status} =~ /WARNING$/);
+ $output{code} = 2 if ($output{status} =~ /CRITICAL$/);
+}
+
+print $output{status};
+exit $output{code};
+{{< /highlight >}}