damontallen/disk_monitoring

This is for the semi-automated installation of smartmontools and postfix to monitor hard drive health

Disk_Monitoring

This is for the semi-automated installation of smartmontools and postfix to monitor hard drive health.

My goal is to setup monitoring the health of attached hard drives and send an email alert about a failure or pending failure. In particular while using a software RAID system.

The information on the web is scattered and sometimes missing. The python program is based on information found at or on the following:

• http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/
• http://mhawthorne.net/posts/postfix-configuring-gmail-as-relay.html
• man smartd.conf
• http://www.howtoforge.com/checking-hard-disk-sanity-with-smartmontools-debian-ubuntu

This notebook is designed to be run as a python program, not as a notebook.

After it is complete you may manually check the self test logs with the following command:

sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda

Where /dev/sda can be any disk drive listed with the following command:

sudo fdisk -l | grep "Disk /dev"

To see the code in an IPython notebook form click on the link below.

Notebook

To use this program, either download a zipped verion of the code and unzip it or clone the repo with the command:

git clone https://github.com/damontallen/Disk_Monitoring.git

Navigate to the directory containing the Installing.py file and enter the following command:

sudo python Installing.py

Trouble Shooting

Information about trouble shooting is at the end of the notebook.

There is some additional information about sending and recieving email from the command line at Linux mail command examples – send mails from command line

disk_monitoring's Issues

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Add a print statement that says a test email was sent to the email you provided. Please check your inbox to verify that the installation worked correctly.