[smartmontools-support] smartd and windows

[Christian Franke]

Thane K. Sherrington wrote:
> Hello All,
>     Where does smartd store output in Windows?  I want run smartd on 
> Windows 10 and 11 computers, and monitor the log file to generate 
> warnings.

By default, smartd syslog output is sent to the Windows event log. This 
is the usual output for windows services. Run "eventvwr.msc" from 
console to start the event viewer. The messages from source "smartd" 
appear in section "Application".

With option '-l local0', output is written to smartd.log in the install 
directory. To use this, install the service with:
   smartd install -l local0
See section '-l FACILITY' on smartd manual page for details.

You may want to add something like '-m console -M daily -M test' to 
smartd.conf. Then each warning "email" will appear as a message box. See 
section '-m ADD' on smartd.conf manual page for details.

Regards,
Christian