Monitor HDD and SSD with smartd and smartctl

Basic information

smartd is a daemon that monitоrs the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) system which 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 the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling SMART automatic testing, and initiating device self-tests. 

Installation

Both can be installed with smartmontools in 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 to /etc/smartd.conf

/dev/sda -d sat -o on -S on -m test@example.com -M test -a -s (S/../.././01|L/../../6/03)
/dev/sdb -d sat -o on -S on -m test@example.com -M test -a -s (S/../.././01|L/../../6/03)

Basic smartctl usage

To check if S.M.A.R.T exist on disc:

smartctl -i /dev/sda

To get report about all disk health:

smartctl -i -a /dev/sda

Following, the article provides a basic configuration and instruction on how to use smartctl and smartd on Linux-based machines. Also, You can read more Linux guides by link https://linuxnotes.org/category/linux-how-to/

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