Hard Disk Monitoring

Looking forward to the next maintenance cycle and an update where the "standard" edition can detect missing drives and assist in dealing with failing RAID groups.

Also, as to not getting an e-mail alert when running as a service, as you stated: " The e-mail alert should be sent on the 2nd detection cycle. So if the detection frequency (Configuration -> Advanced options) is set to the default, the e-mail alert may be sent after 5 minutes after startup. Ye...

1) Configuration -> Integration -> Enable WebStatus option is enabled and the HTTP connection port is set to 61220 ? > Answer: YES > 2) The firewall does not block the connection, it is set to allow Hard Disk Sentinel to listed to the port and allow connections? > Answer: This fixes the problem. I a...

Thank you.

I apologize, the built-in Help provided in the product is easier to search than the HDsentinel.com website's version of the Help; therefore now I found the information on running HD Sentinel as a service quite easily now. As they say, RTFM! :oops: It seems as if while running the service (on Windows...

Thank you for the reply. I understand your need to up-sell additional "features" in the professional or enterprise editions, but it would be nice to have this available in the "standard" edition as well. Not being a business customer, I only have a single computer I wish to monit...

What temperature thresholds should I set for HD Sentinel alerts? The drive manufacturer only specifices an operating range. Rule of thumb 80% YELLOW warning, 95% RED danger? The S.M.A.R.T. value for highest temperature ever recorded also could be a clue (the drives were operating long time before I ...

Can I set HD Sentinel to run as a Windows service in the background? Normally the windows console is not logged in. I still want to get alert e-mails.

Sorry, I have tried to find an answer in the forum and in the documentation, but a I am failing.

Question: Can HD Sentinel alert when a HDD goes "offline" and is gone? I have HD Sentinel Standard running on Windows Home Server 2011 (same as Windows Server 2008 R2). It detects all HDD correctly through the on-board Intel SATA RAID controller. I have both a RAID1 set of 2 drives (system...

It has been some time since this question was asked, so I'll bring it up again. Has there been any progress on development of a Windows Home Server (WHS) Add-In? Also, to be more specific, WHS 2011 edition. The WHS v1 was based on Windows Server 2003, the WHS 2011 version is based on Windows Server ...