basic information
smartad is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) system that is built into most ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS drives and solid-state drives.
smartctl is a command-line utility designed to perform smart tasks such as printing smart self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling smart automated tests, and starting device self-tests.
installation
Both can be installed with smartmontools in a Debian-like system:
# apt-get install smartmontools
Or CentOS system:
# yum install smartmontools
Basic SmartD Configuration
Here is a basic SmartD configuration to monitor 2 HDD drives. The following lines need to be added /etc/smartd.conf,
/dev/sda -d sat -o on -S on -m [email protected] -M test -a -s (S/../.././01|L/../../6/03) /dev/sdb -d sat -o on -S on -m [email protected] -M test -a -s (S/../.././01|L/../../6/03)
Basic SmartCTL usage
To check if smart exists on disk:
To get reports about all disk health:
# smartctl -i -a /dev/sda
