ZFS Health Check Script

zfs_health.sh

#! /usr/local/bin/bash
#
# Calomel.org 
#     https://calomel.org/zfs_health_check_script.html
#     FreeBSD 9.1 ZFS Health Check script 
#     zfs_health.sh @ Version 0.15

# Check health of ZFS volumes and drives. On any faults send email. In FreeBSD
# 10 there is supposed to be a ZFSd daemon to monitor the health of the ZFS
# pools. For now, in FreeBSD 9, we will make our own checks and run this script
# through cron a few times a day.

# Changelog
# Peter van der Does - Always send an email, even if there is no problem.
#                      I prefer to know a script has run even when there is no problem.
# June 24, 2015
# Peter van der Does - When a scrub is needed the email subject line only has to inform us once.

# 99 problems but ZFS ain't one
problems=0
emailSubject="`hostname` - ZFS pool - HEALTH check"
emailMessage=""

# Health - Check if all zfs volumes are in good condition. We are looking for
# any keyword signifying a degraded or broken array.

condition=$(/sbin/zpool status | egrep -i '(DEGRADED|FAULTED|OFFLINE|UNAVAIL|REMOVED|FAIL|DESTROYED|corrupt|cannot|unrecover)')
if [ "${condition}" ]; then
  emailSubject="$emailSubject - fault"
  problems=1
fi


# Capacity - Make sure pool capacities are below 80% for best performance. The
# percentage really depends on how large your volume is. If you have a 128GB
# SSD then 80% is reasonable. If you have a 60TB raid-z2 array then you can
# probably set the warning closer to 95%. 
#
# ZFS uses a copy-on-write scheme. The file system writes new data to
# sequential free blocks first and when the uberblock has been updated the new
# inode pointers become valid. This method is true only when the pool has
# enough free sequential blocks. If the pool is at capacity and space limited,
# ZFS will be have to randomly write blocks. This means ZFS can not create an
# optimal set of sequential writes and write performance is severely impacted.

maxCapacity=80

if [ ${problems} -eq 0 ]; then
  capacity=$(/sbin/zpool list -H -o capacity)
  for line in ${capacity//%/}
  do
    if [ $line -ge $maxCapacity ]; then
      emailSubject="$emailSubject - Capacity Exceeded"
      problems=1
    fi
  done
fi


# Errors - Check the columns for READ, WRITE and CKSUM (checksum) drive errors
# on all volumes and all drives using "zpool status". If any non-zero errors
# are reported an email will be sent out. You should then look to replace the
# faulty drive and run "zpool scrub" on the affected volume after resilvering.

if [ ${problems} -eq 0 ]; then
  errors=$(/sbin/zpool status | grep ONLINE | grep -v state | awk '{print $3 $4 $5}' | grep -v 000)
  if [ "${errors}" ]; then
    emailSubject="$emailSubject - Drive Errors"
    problems=1
  fi
fi


# Scrub Expired - Check if all volumes have been scrubbed in at least the last
# 8 days. The general guide is to scrub volumes on desktop quality drives once
# a week and volumes on enterprise class drives once a month. You can always
# use cron to schedule "zpool scrub" in off hours. We scrub our volumes every
# Sunday morning for example.
#
# Scrubbing traverses all the data in the pool once and verifies all blocks can
# be read. Scrubbing proceeds as fast as the devices allows, though the
# priority of any I/O remains below that of normal calls. This operation might
# negatively impact performance, but the file system will remain usable and
# responsive while scrubbing occurs. To initiate an explicit scrub, use the
# "zpool scrub" command.
#
# The scrubExpire variable is in seconds. So for 8 days we calculate 8 days
# times 24 hours times 3600 seconds to equal 691200 seconds. 

scrubExpire=691200

if [ ${problems} -eq 0 ]; then
  currentDate=$(date +%s)
  zfsVolumes=$(/sbin/zpool list -H -o name)

  for volume in ${zfsVolumes}
  do
    if [ $(/sbin/zpool status $volume | egrep -c "none requested") -ge 1 ]; then
      echo "ERROR: You need to run \"zpool scrub $volume\" before this script can monitor the scrub expiration time."
      break
    fi
    if [ $(/sbin/zpool status $volume | egrep -c "scrub in progress|resilver") -ge 1 ]; then
      break
    fi

    ### FreeBSD with *nix supported date format
    scrubRawDate=$(/sbin/zpool status $volume | grep scrub | awk '{print $15 $12 $13}')
    scrubDate=$(date -j -f '%Y%b%e-%H%M%S' $scrubRawDate'-000000' +%s)

    ### Ubuntu with GNU supported date format
    #scrubRawDate=$(/sbin/zpool status $volume | grep scrub | awk '{print $11" "$12" " $13" " $14" "$15}')
    #scrubDate=$(date -d "$scrubRawDate" +%s)

    if [ $(($currentDate - $scrubDate)) -ge $scrubExpire ]; then
      if [ ${problems} -eq 0 ]; then
        emailSubject="$emailSubject - Scrub Time Expired. Scrub Needed on Volume(s)"
      fi
      problems=1
      emailMessage="${emailMessage}Pool: $volume needs scrub \n"
    fi
  done
fi


# Notifications - On any problems send email with drive status information and
# capacities including a helpful subject line to root. Also use logger to write
# the email subject to the local logs. This is the place you may want to put
# any other notifications like:
#
# + Update an anonymous twitter account with your ZFS status (https://twitter.com/zfsmonitor)
# + Playing a sound file or beep the internal speaker
# + Update Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix, Munin or even BigBrother

echo -e "$emailMessage \n\n\n `/sbin/zpool list` \n\n\n `/sbin/zpool status`" | mail -s "$emailSubject" root
if [ "$problems" -ne 0 ]; then
  logger $emailSubject
fi

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