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

"Shukla, Alok (GE Healthcare)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
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For /dev/sda -a -m console -M test
If I include wtssendmsg.exe tool the popup appears for me too.
But how does this work in real situations?

If I include wtssendmsg.exe in smart package, and in real world situation SSD is about to fail, User will get a popup on the screen?

Regards,
-Alok

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Franke [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 3:53 PM
To: Shukla, Alok (GE Healthcare)
Cc: [email protected]; Nyamagoudar, Shreepathi (GE Healthcare); Bhat, Venu M (GE Healthcare)
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] SMART tool 6.4 -M test feature 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 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.blat.net_&d=BQICaQ&c=IV_clAzoPDE253xZdHuilRgztyh_RiV3wUrLrDQYWSI&r=8Bb6d4P20I3VcpRxkzja2S9YqCNRO92u-WEEm6Di4aM&m=Flg7DDegakuOGD6JK3IzzytGXhFJBULAY2kJFYmFGcw&s=VXUO51zY3awazh1uya8NdEKtbjEa-W-G0gk9IK8K2ww&e= ).


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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