Monitor hard disk health status with smartd on Linux

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 10:20:34 +0000

This does not really works, read this: https://nagg.eu/monitor-hard-disk-smart-status-in-python/

First of all install smartmontools, it has the same name on pretty much every distro:

$ emerge -a1 smartmontools

Proceed to edit its configuration file, at the bottom of the file there is a quick explaination of all the available parameters:

cat/etc/smartd.conf
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DEVICESCAN -H -R 1 -R 5 -R 7 -R 10 -R 11 -R 196 -R 197 -R 199 -R 200 -m user@domain.tld -n standby,10,q

Parameter -H tells smartd to check the result of overall-health self-assesment test which is pretty much useless, -R is used to specify a single SMART attribute, if its value changes a mail is sent to user@domain.tld.
To send emails a MTA must be installed, in centos that is sendmail, in gentoo it is not strictly necessary to have a full fledget MTA installed, nullmailer will suffice.
If it is not already installed:

Nullmailer on nagg.eu

Monitor hard disk health status with smartd on Linux

This does not really works, read this: https://nagg.eu/monitor-hard-disk-smart-status-in-python/