What is smartd?
Robert Marcano
robert at marcanoonline.com
Thu Mar 25 15:03:15 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 10:53, Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 03/24/2004 10:27 PM, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:49:41 +0530, Kaustubh Ghosh wrote
> >
....
> Here's what I still wonder: how well does SMART work? If I aggressively
> monitor my smartd errors, will I be guaranteed to catch a failing drive
> before it dies completely? Or when they die, do they mostly die all at
> once, not giving smartd a chance to warn you ahead of time? And are
> there any UI elements to smartd, so that you'll be warned when a problem
> is logged, without having to go check /var/log/messages, or are you
> expected to use whatever other log monitoring tools you've already set up?
>
You can setup it to warn you via email
> I also think it's kind of funny that this is out there now, now that
> drives hardly fail anymore. I wish I had this 10 years ago. Although I
> still see situations where certain groups of drives are bad (for
> example, a bunch we bought for some Macs in our Design department last
> year all failed). Pretty neat.
>
> --Matt
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