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Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

This used to monitor a hard drive's state and reliability. It tries to predict failures and warns the user when a disk is degrading.

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Ran smartctl on my drive, not sure if this is good or bad

I've been having problems with a drive in my Synology diskstation. I saw the following errors pop up on my /var/log/messages: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: failed command: SMART ata6.00: cmd…
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What is the absolutely simplest way of sending notification from a linux server?

I have a server with smartmontools and I wish it sent med a notification/warning email whenever a disk fails. For this i need to setup a email server on the machine. However this will be the only service that sends emails, is there something that is…
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Windows Server - WMI Permission?

This question is related to this one. I am trying to get some disk sensor data via WMI (W2012R2). Therefore I added a user wmiagent and granted some rights. I did it exactly like in this guide. Some commands like checkmem work fine so the connection…
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Unable to get SMART metrics from Seagate Disks on Debian OS

Referring to the question here, I too am trying to get all attributes out, as explained in this blog here. I am using Debian 6 as OS, and installed smartmontools version 6.3 using apt-get. My 6 disks are on RAID. I first enabled the stats using the…
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smartctl error end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector

I have a Scientific Linux 6.5 server with a RAID with SSD disks. I see several error on dmesg file but there is no alert or errors provided by the utilities of the RAID controller (LSI controller). The server is a Supermico D20-4x-M4, connected…
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"Core Charge" on defective server HDDs

I have collected a pretty decent amount of SAS and SCSI disks over the years that have a predictive failure warning. I was just about to throw them all out, but wondered if any of the manufacturers offer a buy back program or maybe a credit toward…
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Nagios change threshold values

I'm using nagios checkmk 1.2.2 to monitor some hosts. How can I adjust specific smart values per host so they won't create a critical alert? For example: CRIT - Reallocated sectors: 2CRIT I only want a critical alert if the reallocated sector counts…
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Alternatives to SMART for Monitoring HDD Corruption

Given that SMART is unreliable for predicting HDD failure, does anyone have a reliable alternative for automating quick identification of hard drives that are beginning to fail? This is for Windows Server 2008 R2. I do not have the luxury of using…
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SMART: Raw Read Error Rate Errors on Mirrored Drives

Thanks for reading. I have a pair of 150GB WD Velociraptors that have failed SMART status. The only fail they have is the Raw Read Error Rate, which is as follows. .........Status:....Value:....Worst:....Threshold:....Raw Value:....Predicted TEC…
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Should I run extended offline self tests using smartd?

A while ago I setup smartd on all my servers do do a daily "Short Offline" test and a weekly "Extended Offline" test. The config for that is "-s (S/../.././00|L/../../7/04)". Today I noticed one of my servers had a load average over 30 and was…
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Can smart data be read from proc on Linux?

I see there is a virtual file /proc/ide/hda/smart_values and I imagine it contains the smart data that smartmontools reads with the smartctl command. Can I read that data with my own eyes? I see a bunch of numbers in the file and would like to…
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Hddtemp and drivers

hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: DELL PERC 6/i Adapter: S.M.A.R.T. not available Does this mean I need to install some type of driver on my linux server to access that information?
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Cannot perform smartctl self-test after migrating servers from SLES to Scientific Linux

I maintain several Linux servers, that we are in the process of migrating from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 10.4) to Scientific Linux (version 5.9). The six SAS hard drives on each machine are connected to an Adaptec AAC-RAID controller,…
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Hard drive errors: probably 2 bad sectors and nothing is working

All started with bsod from WindowsXP: unmountable boot volume. Then I tried ubuntu and Palimpsest. SMART status was OK (2 bad sectors), but all test failed on "reading system" (I don't know if I translate it correctly). So I tried SeaTools from…
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SMART and exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0

looking at the logs I see several errors. The smart status is PASSED, but even if It is verbose It isn't clear what is going on. Should the disk be replaced? Attached dmesg and smart logs # dmesg ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action…
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