SMARTD(8)

NAME
smartd - S.M.A.R.T. Daemon

SYNOPSIS
smartd [-X]

DESCRIPTION
smartd is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System(S.M.A.R.T.) built into ATA-3 and later IDE and SCSI-3 Hard Drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures. smartd is daemon designed to notify users of S.M.A.R.T. errors via SYSLOG interface.

OPTIONS

smartd accepts single agrument. The options begin with a '-'. The daemon scans for all ATA devices using the form "/dev/hd*" and SCSI devices using the form "/dev/sd*" that support S.M.A.R.T. and have S.M.A.R.T. enabled. It polls these devices every 30 minutes checking for S.M.A.R.T. errors.

X   Runs smartd "debug" which runs non fork and displays ststus to STDOUT

EXAMPLES
smartd
    - run in forked (daemon mode)

AUTHOR
Michael Cornwell, cornwell@acm.org
Concurrent Systems Laboratory
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
University of California Santa Cruz
http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/