System events notifications remotely for headless MM server

[wardie]

I’ve got a 2018 MM which I use as a headless file and backup server. I use various USB3/TB external disks for providing the storage for the shares, plus the space for Time Machine server backups. Occasionally I have problems with the drives ejecting themselves - which I think was caused with one or two of them not playing nicely with power nap. Also the option to spin down disks when idle is not checked.

I’ve switched power nap off as a workaround but really would like to know if there is a utility tool that will allow me to monitor such system notifications (and other notifications) remotely e.g. via push notifications, or email, or anything else.

I’ve previously used growl / hardware growler on my now-retired 2009 MM but gather this is very old S/W now and has issues. But I can’t seem to find any other solution to what ought to be a simple problem. I don’t have the OSX Server options I used to have under previous OS of course.

Any ideas, collective brains trust? I’d consider free or cheap, but not paying premium $ for a pro-grade monitoring service I don’t need it’s just for SOHO use.

 

[cerberusss]

Are you handy with scripting? I think I'd use Hammerspoon for this: http://www.hammerspoon.org/

It's a utility that lives in the menubar, and upon startup, reads a script (in the Lua scripting language). That script can contain all sorts of stuff. I use it to create hotkeys that size my windows in a particular way. But I see that it's also possible to execute a task every X seconds. You could, for instance, check if all drives are mounted, and if not, send an email.

 

[wardie]

Are you handy with scripting? I think I'd use Hammerspoon for this: http://www.hammerspoon.org/

It's a utility that lives in the menubar, and upon startup, reads a script (in the Lua scripting language). That script can contain all sorts of stuff. I use it to create hotkeys that size my windows in a particular way. But I see that it's also possible to execute a task every X seconds. You could, for instance, check if all drives are mounted, and if not, send an email.

Thanks I will check that out, yes OK at scripting I’m ex IT developer so can turn my hand to that stuff when needed...