Works for me. I use the raw (AKA free ) version on X86_64 systems as well as ARM64 and even ARMHF (32 bit RpiOS, Pi Zeroes) to keep track of things on my home LAN. I even use it to report when my TP-Link smart bulbs stop communicating (ping only.) As a bonus it seems that occasional pings of the TP-Link bulbs helps to keep them in line.
Today I re-implemented a full pool backup on my laptop with encrypted rpool
. In the past this resulted in errors reported in zpool status. Before the backup had even completed, checkmk
had reported the errors that had cropped up. (*)
The only annoying thing is that checkmk
lists every single dataset as a candidate for monitoring which can run into the hundreds on a backup server. It takes about 10s each to dismiss them. That’s annoying but something I can do while watching TV.
(*) I’ve run into this before, always triggered by the same condition. The errors are in snapshots and eventually go away when the snapshot is destroyed. I just upgraded to ZFS 2.2.3 on this host to see if that cures the problem.