Re: Question regarding porting of 'smartctl' features in a Monitoring tool

Hi Arun,

Arun wrote:
> Samsung Enterprise Portal mySingle
>
> Hi Support,
>
> Can you please share your thoughts on how to handle the following 
> requirement?
>
>
> We have been using a home-developed tool for monitoring our 
> infrastructure, and we have been thinking of including few key SMART 
> metrics in the tool (such as Disk Error Rate), so that we can 
> constantly monitor the disk health.
>
>
> In this regard, I'm trying to see how much would we need from the 
> 'smartmontools' suite to be integrated into our monitoring tool.
>

Thanks for considering smartmontools for your monitoring needs.

Did you already check whether the intended use of parts from 
smartmontools code is compatible with its license (GPLv2+)?
If "integrating into" actually means "linking compiled objects to", the 
GPL may affect (or "infect") the whole monitoring tool.


> ... If there is any existing framework or methodology to use these 
> files to customize for specific needs, kindly let me know. Thanks for 
> the help. 

Sorry, no, there is none. In the past, there were a few requests to make 
a library from smartmontools, but there is no volunteer working on this.

Thanks,
Christian


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