[smartmontools-support] Automatically alert the user on S.M.A.R.T. health warnings

[Carlos E. R.]

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El 2021-11-22 a las 20:22 +0100, R. Diez via Smartmontools-support escribió:

> Hi all:
>
> I have a number of PCs to maintain. Every now and them, I log onto each one 
> of them and check if everything is alright. The most important checks are 
> whether the disks are getting full, whether there are S.M.A.R.T. warnings, 
> and whether the operating system updates are up-to-date.
>
> After some time, I decided to learn some powerful, popular monitoring system 
> that could automatically alert me about these kinds of problems. There would 
> be some learning curve due to time-series databases etc., but it would be 
> worth it. My very simple and common PC health checks will surely be built-in, 
> ready to use. So I chose Prometheus to start with.


There is a ready to use tool, at least in Linux.

You just configure /etc/smartd.conf; for example, I have:

   /dev/sda -a -S on -T permissive -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -m root at telcontar.valinor

Which mails another local machine where I sit. Then you start the daemon:

systemctl enable --now smartd

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Cheers
        Carlos E. R.

        (from openSUSE 15.2 (Legolas))
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