Hard Disk Monitoring

Just getting into linux scripting etc and I was wondering if you already recieved some scripts?
(running into a heap of problems figuring out the values in a script)

If not a nice feature would be to give a threshhold value on Health while running HDSentinel
eg.

./HDSentinel -th 50

This would mean that if healh would be below 50% Status would be set to Failed

Eg..

./HDSentinel -th 50

HDD Device 7: /dev/sdh
HDD Model ID : Hitachi HDT721010SLA360
HDD Serial No: STFXX4MH0XXHB
HDD Revision : ST6OXXX
HDD Size : 953870 MB
Interface : S-ATA II
Temperature : 38 °C
Health : 49 %
Performance : 100 %
Power on time: 1 days, 1 hours
Est. lifetime: more than 1000 days
Threshold Status : Failed

so if we grep for failed we could do something with it..... send mail etc

if possible <75% would give a Warning and >75 would give an OK?? not sure at what % failure becomes imminent

Hope this made a little sense.

Thanks so much for the idea!
No, until now I received no scripts for Linux version, maybe because of the holiday season

Yes I agree: this can be used to quickly check the status of the drives.
Maybe there can be two different modes:

1) by using this switch, the software would display all disks with the appropriate status (failed, OK)
2) by using an other switch (for example -hth ) only failed drives (under the threshold) would be displayed

Maybe it would be nice to have other threshold filter for temperature also
I'll think about it and will add such options to the next version.

TheEvilDot wrote: If not a nice feature would be to give a threshhold value on Health while running HDSentinel
eg.

./HDSentinel -th 50

Sweet couldn't ask for more.. (well.... <g>)
Haven't thought about the temperature ... but this makes a lot of sense.

Some more idea's

If we detemine a failure condition run a script.
This would even make it more easy for users to run it in a cron job.

if I figured out how to send mail / email via a console script I'll post it here.

ty.

It is best that you are always in a cool area so you won't get a lot of temperature problems.