ZetaWatch

[cbreak]

This is a very special-purpose GUI for ZFS: https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch

It monitors all imported pools, querying status in regular intervals, and reporting degradation and other issues via OS X Notifications. It also prevents system idle sleep while a scrub is active (but not user initiated sleep or shutdown).

The program is very much beta, but it works for me so far.

[calbear88]

Thanks for posting this. Just wondering how I can run the program. Does it need to be compiled first?
I didn't a link to a executable file

Thanks

[cbreak]

You can download the current build on https://the-color-black.net/zetawatch/ZetaWatch.app.zip

I have to think of some proper way to host builds

[lundman]

I get "unable to read configuration" after the first vdev device in the pool

[cbreak]

You must have a pool configuration I haven't tried

The documentation of the whole libzfs api is very lacking, so I went by what I was able to test. I think I haven't tested pools with cache / log devices. Single disk pools or raidz pools should work though...

Edit: Seems fresh pools don't have any scan statistic entry, so not finding one is normal. I've changed ZetaWatch to ignore it and not classify it as an error.

[stigkj]

You can download the current build on https://the-color-black.net/zetawatch/ZetaWatch.app.zip

I have to think of some proper way to host builds

Maybe you could just make a release on GitHub? That way you can also host the binaries.

[cbreak]

You can download the current build on https://the-color-black.net/zetawatch/ZetaWatch.app.zip

I have to think of some proper way to host builds

Maybe you could just make a release on GitHub? That way you can also host the binaries.

Interesting, didn't know that was possible. Here it is:
https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWat ... ses/tag/r0

[cbreak]

ZetaWatch has been improved a lot in the recent months

Currently supported features are:

• Show pool and vdev status including scrub progress
• Show pool / filesystem properties
• Show filesystem and vdev stats
• Import pools and Export pools
• Mount / unmount datasets
• Load encryption keys for encrypted datasets
• Scrub pools
• Report errors in notification center

https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch
https://the-color-black.net/blog/ZetaWatch

[nodarkthings]

So sad it's not working in 10.11.6 (10.12 mini)

[cbreak]

I've only tested it with 10.13.6, and I think others have used it on 10.14. If you want 10.11 support, it might be possible to compile ZetaWatch for that platform, but it'd be untested.

Edit: And I've added a bunch new features since the last post

https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch

- Auto updates
- Auto importing pools
- Auto unlocking encrypted datasets (possibly storing the keys in keychain)
- Better visualization
- And more!