What is smartd?

[Robert Marcano]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 11:03, Robert Marcano wrote:
> 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

This smartd script is nice

/usr/share/doc/smartmontools-5.21/examplescripts/Example3

> 
> > 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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> Robert Marcano
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