On Wed, Jun 28 2017, Johannes Truschnigg wrote:

> Hi Gandalf,
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:25:55PM +0200, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
>> Hi to all
>> I always used hardwre raid but with my next server I would like to use mdadm.
>> 
>> Some questions:
>> 
>> 1) all raid controllers have proactive monitoring features, like
>> patrol read, consistency check and (more or less) some SMART
>> integration.
>> Any counterpart in mdadm?
>
> mdmon(8) is what you seek. Also, monitoring the kernel debug ringbuffer I can
> highly recommend.

Not mdmon(8).
Possible you mean "mdadm --monitor".

NeilBrown