Re: How configure smartctl (not smartd)

fortaisur <[email protected]> wrote:

>One platform I am now working with occasionally has a RAID controller
>which requires adding e.g. " -d sat+megaraid,0" to the smartctl command line
>in order to get anything useful.
>
>I don't work with the platform that much so keep forgetting that parameter
>and have to look it up again.
>
>I assumed there would be a smartctl.conf, or an environment variable like SMARTCTL,
>where I could set that so I don't need to specify it.  I cannot find any
>documentation on any way to set smartctl arguments like that.  The smartd.conf
>appears to be for smartd only, not smartctl.
>
>Is there some way to set arguments like this?  I realize I could make a shell
>alias or function, but most programs have some built-in way to set commonly-needed
>options.
>
>I noticed that per the system logs, smartd needs no such specification - it
>appears to automatically figure out the type of drive/controller.  Is there any
>way to get smartctl to do the same?
>

Hmm, no responses - so smartctl has no way to auto-detect, or set its options?



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