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SMART HD monitoring? [SOLVED]
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:15 pm
by 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?
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:41 pm
by 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.
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:12 am
by 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
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:54 am
by 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.
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:40 am
by 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!
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:29 am
by 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.
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:29 am
by 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...
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:40 pm
by kikkegek
I have run the short test, but dont get any output....does it produce a file or something?
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:53 pm
by rjwaldren
To view the test results you will need to issue
smartctl -a /dev/<yourdrive>
Re: SMART HD monitoring?
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:16 pm
by kikkegek
okay, I did that and here is the file:
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
