Re: smartmon email notifications are not always very 'smart' (need stateful information)

Doh! You always think you're not going to be the noob who hasn't RTFM
but then it happens to you.

On 7 February 2017 at 11:54, Christian Franke
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Anshuman Aggarwal wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> I have a drive that is supposedly failing but will likely last me 6-8
>> months more (as part of a raid 6 cluster so I don't feel compelled to
>> replace right away, it also allowed a full reconstruction of the 2 TB
>> cluster without any issues) It gives the following error notifications
>> everyday for the last 3 months via emails.
>>
>>
>> Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], 11 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>>
>> Device: /dev/sdg [SAT], 11 Offline uncorrectable sectors
>>
>>
>> However the number of reallocated and unreadable sectors is NOT going
>> up. It stays the same at 11 and 5 and has been for the last 3-4
>> months.
>>
>> What I *would like* to see is a notification only when the number
>> *changes* from the last time the error failed so that I can react to
>> that change that the drive is 'worsening'.
>
>
> Try '-C 197+ -U 198+' directives, see smartd.conf man page.
>
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>

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