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Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) is built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.
 
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) is built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.
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====Method 1====
 
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  config set smartd service  
 
  config set smartd service  
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  ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S40smartd
 
  ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S40smartd
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This will log warnings to /var/log/messages, Emails to admin on critical errors would be good.
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====Method 2====
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Create a script that will run at each re-boot, with your own options <br>
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this method just saves having to template the config file
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This will log warnings to /var/log/messages, Emails to admin on critical errors would be good.
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nano -w /etc/e-smith/events/local/S40smartd
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#! /bin/sh
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smartd -H -m admin -M diminishing -M test
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chmod +x /etc/e-smith/events/local/S40smartd

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