[smartmontools-support] Regarding NVMe device monitoring

[桃源老師]

Hello Christian-san, 

Thanks for reply.

> 2022/11/18 午前3:34、Christian Franke <Christian.Franke at t-online.de>のメール:
> 
> 桃源老師 wrote:
>> Hello...
>> 
>> I tried the following  command:
>> 
>> smartctl -x /dev/disk0
>> 
>> And I get the following result:
>> 
>> roushinoMacBook-Pro-15:~ roushi$ smartctl -x /dev/disk0
>> smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [Darwin 22.1.0 x86_64] (sf-7.3-1)
>> Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>> 
>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>> Model Number:                       APPLE SSD AP0512M
>> ...
>> 
>> === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
>> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
>> 
>> SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
>> Critical Warning:                   0x00
>> Temperature:                        33 Celsius
>> ...
>> Error Information Log Entries:      0
>> 
>> Read 1 entries from Error Information Log failed: GetLogPage failed: system=0x38, sub=0x0, code=745
> 
> SMART/Health Information succeeded, Error Information Log failed.
> The error codes need to be investigated by someone familiar with this macOS/Darwin specific API (IONVMeSMARTInterface).

Hmm...  I can say that me is not a person you describe...

>> To confirm, I paste smartd's E-mail:
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Device: /dev/disk0, failed to read NVMe SMART/Health Information
> 
> Different: SMART/Health Information failed. smartd does not read the Error Information Log.
> 
> Please check smartd syslog output for other error messages. The EMail is not sufficient for diagnostics.

I tried the following command: 

cat /private/var/log/system.log | grep smartd

And I get nothing.

Am I doing wrong with getting SYSSLOG on my Mac? Or how can I get smartd's message on SYSLOG?

Recent Mac's system.log is not interesting.


Best Regards,
Kimio Miyamura