Re: SMART tool 6.4 -M test featur e is not working.

Shukla, Alok (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> Can you please provide a sample smartd.conf file which could simulate the situation?
> 


This smartd.conf works for me to send a test mail for the first physical drive:

/dev/sda -a -m SOMEONE@SOMEWHERE -M test

(Replace SOMEONE@SOMEWHERE with a valid local mail address)
On Windows, this requires a properly configured blat.exe in the PATH (see http://www.blat.net/).


Sample diagnostic output for above smartd.conf:
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[C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin] smartd -q onecheck
smartd 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-win7-sp1] (sf-6.4-1)
...
Configuration file C:/Program Files/smartmontools/bin/smartd.conf parsed.
Device: /dev/sda, opened
Device: /dev/sda, WDC WD2003FYYS-18W0B0, S/N:..., FW:01.01D02, 2.00 TB
Device: /dev/sda, found in smartd database: Western Digital RE4
Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Executing test of <mail> to SOMEONE@SOMEWHERE ...
Test of <mail> to SOMEONE@SOMEWHERE: successful
Device: /dev/sda, opened ATA device
...
Started with '-q onecheck' option. All devices sucessfully checked once.
smartd is exiting (exit status 0)
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On Windows only, this works for me to display a test warning message box on console desktop:

/dev/sda -a -m console -M test

This requires the wtssendmsg.exe tool which is part of smartmontools package.

Regards,
Christian




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