SMART HD monitoring? [SOLVED]

[kikkegek]

hi guys,

just love my Amahi server now up and running for two days now.

I was wondering: MS was giving me all kinds of SMART errors all the time. So I would like to know how can I check or monitor the health of my system? and especially the harddrives?

[radioz]

The Disk Utility under System Tools will display Smart data (on the Fedora desktop). Take a look.

I think it is part of the standard installation.

[kikkegek]

I found this:
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Disk_Error_Alerts


I'll check that out when I have the time for it

[bigfoot65]

That guidance will keep you informed of the drive status. I use it and receive emails when there are issues. Most of the time its a warning about temp or minor problems. It does work well.

[kikkegek]

Ik have done everything from the wiki and setup the system te report to my gmail account, but I am not receiving daily reports.

where can I find logs to research this?> I already checked /var/log/ but cant find amy smartctl or smartd logs there...

please help!

[moredruid]

smartctl -a /dev/<yourdrive>

gives you a full report

smartctl -t short /dev/<yourdrive> for a short 2 or 4 minute test, "long" for a long 30 minute test IIRC.

[kikkegek]

smartctl -a /dev/<yourdrive>

gives you a full report

smartctl -t short /dev/<yourdrive> for a short 2 or 4 minute test, "long" for a long 30 minute test IIRC.

thanks, I'll do that today.

WHS was giving me all kinds of errors of failing disks all the time...thats one of the reasons I switched to Amahi...but the foremoest reason is the awesome support on this forum....thanks...

I'll check the sentmail logs why the reports dont get sent out every day...

[kikkegek]

I have run the short test, but dont get any output....does it produce a file or something?

[rjwaldren]

To view the test results you will need to issue
smartctl -a /dev/<yourdrive>

[kikkegek]

okay, I did that and here is the file:

smartctl_log.txt

(4.56 KiB) Downloaded 166 times

can you tell me if this is good or bad?

WHS was killing me with disk errors all the time, so I am really curious if the disc is OK or not.

and my file transfers over GB network are only U: 3-4MB/sec and D: 10-12 MB/sec

so I wanna be sure its not the disc