Disk Monitoring with cronjobs -- report disk issues

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Is there a way to monitor disk health and send cronjob reports for errors?

I know you can use smartctl -s on -a /dev/hda to pull information but just wondering if there is a way that could be used to filter and only send if something needs attention.

Is SmartMon something I want to look into?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '13 at 19:46

You can set up smartd to run as a daemon and email you when a disk error occurs. Add -m your@email.com to the relevant line of the smartd configuration file (e.g. /etc/smartd.conf or /etc/default/smartmontools). This is the line that usually begins with DEVICESCAN.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 04 '13 at 19:47

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You can run smartd as a service by enabling it in the smartd config file, /etc/smartd.conf for RHEL for instance. There is an option for sending an alert message when something goes wrong.

answered Feb 04 '13 at 19:47

Daniel t.

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Disk Monitoring with cronjobs -- report disk issues

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