Re: Using SMARTd to monitor drives

On 31/01/17 01:21 AM, Christian Franke wrote:


It is logged to syslog as: "Sending warning via MAILER to ADDRESS ..."
> immediately after the actual warning message.

That's interesting, how do I enable that?
>
> This means that another SMART self test has failed. Did you check the
> self-test log(s) in output of 'smartctl -x /dev/sdb' ? A failed
> self-test typically reports the LBA of the first bad sector.

It would sure be nice if there was a way of just getting the errors or 
important changes.  The above is so hard to use as far as seeing 
important things.
> error no matter what I do :-/
> In a previous mail from 2017-01-19, I already explained how to disable
> the pending sectors alert with the -C directive.

Yes, BUT, I want to see if the count ever increases.  That is, I don't 
want to see '77' over and over again, but I do want to see if it goes to 78.

You know Christian, you have a very powerful program, but for a 
non-expert it can be difficult to figure out how to make it 'just work' 
in a simple, easy and normal way.  I had not expected to devote dozens 
of hours to figuring this out, I just want timely messages of *new* 
problems.  The complexity gives one great power, but one is lost trying 
to do simple things.  A basic tutorial or howto would be very nice!

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