S.M.A.R.T. is a system in modern hard drives designed to report conditions that may indicate impending failure. smartmontools is a free software package that can monitor S.M.A.R.T. attributes and run hard drive self-tests. Although smartmontools runs on a number of platforms, I will only cover installing and configuring it on Linux.
Smartctl (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a command line utility or a tool in UNIX like operating system that perform SMART tasks such as printing the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling SMART automatic testing, and initiating device self-tests.
Installation of Smartcl
# yum install smartmontools
Start and enable the Smartctl Service
# systemctl start smartd ; systemctl enable smartd
Check Whether Smart Capability is enabled or not for the disk
# firewall-cmd –zone=public –remove-port=80/tcp
# smartctl -i /dev/sda
If above command fails, you may need to tell smartctl that what type of hard drive interface you are using:
# firewall-cmd –zone=public –list-ports
# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb // For SATA drive
Replace /dev/sda with your hard drive’s device file. The output of the command:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint T133 series Device Model: SAMSUNG HD300LJ Serial Number: S0D7J1UL303628 Firmware Version: ZT100-12 User Capacity: 300,067,970,560 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a Local Time is: Fri Jan 2 03:08:20 2009 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
Enable Smart Capability for the disk
# smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/sda
Output of the command:
=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION === SMART Enabled. SMART Attribute Autosave Enabled. SMART Automatic Offline Testing Enabled every four hours.
Disable Smart Capability for the disk
# smartctl -s off /dev/sdb
Display Overall health of the Disk
# smartctl -H /dev/sdb
Output of the command:
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Let’s make sure that the drive supports self-tests.
# smartctl -c /dev/sda
Output of the command:
Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 127) minutes.
Test Hard drive using long option.
# smartctl –test=long /dev/sdb
Test Hard drive using short option.
# smartctl –test=short /dev/sdb
You can run to check results.
# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 21472 -
Display Error logs of the disk
# smartctl -l error /dev/sdb
Manpages
man 8 smartctl
man 8 smartd
man 8 update-smart-drivedb
man 5 smartd.conf