Smartctl is a command line utility in linux that perform smart tasks such as. Analyzing a faulty hard disk using smartctl thomaskrenn. Download smartmontools packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, openwrt, pclinuxos. In this example, we will show how to analyze a defective hard disk. Download and run the latest smartmontools nsisinstaller.
To display details smart info for the disk run below command. You can install the smartmontools package from the synaptic package manager see synaptichowto, or by typing the. This is the tool that is used by other gui tools like gnome disks or gsmartcontrol. Under linux, you can read the smart selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology information from the hard disk using smartctl. The smartctl man page on my boxes provides a link to one of its authors article in linux journal. Smartmontools is a set of applications that can test hard drives and read their hardware smart statistics. Just for the sake of write it down, here is a short howto. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. Getting started to examine smart data from a disk, try. In this post we will discuss some practical examples of smartctl command, use below steps to install smartctl, if it is not installed on your linux box. Setting up smartmontools and hddtemp to analyse and monitor storage devices what is smart.
Install it and then query basic information about one of your drives. To check the complete smart information for an ide drive and sata drive type. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl and smartd to control and monitor storage systems using the selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology. More recent windows test releases build from svn snapshots are available here the default install type full creates start menu shortcuts including an uninstaller, and adds the install directory to the path variable. The allowed values of l are from 1 to 4 inclusive, m are from 1 to 8 inclusive and n from 1 to 4 if pmport available. Smartctl monitoring and analysis tool for hard drive linuxtechi. Here is a sample output trimmed somewhat, an explanation comes below. Install the smartmontools package to use these tools.
Smart support must be available and enabled on each storage device to effectively use. The above command will turn on the smart support, if already enabled it does nothing. The hard disk in this example can no longer read several sectors and is therefore defective. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl and smartd to control and monitor storage systems using the selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology system s. Install smartmontools and add its bin folder to path in environment variables or specify absolute path to smartctl binary in zabbixsmartctl. Smartmontools community help wiki ubuntu documentation. Also supports an alternative flat format suitable for grep jsong. This tool performs smart tasks such as printing the smart selftest and.
It is derived from the smartsuite package, and includes support for ataatapi5 disks. The first, smartctl, is a command line utility designed to perform simple s. Prints scsi pending defects log page if supported smartctl h. Smartctl monitoring and analysis tool for hard drive. This package is known to build and work properly using an lfs9. The smartmontools package comes with two utilities, smartctl which you can use to check your hard drives on the command line, and smartd, a daemon that checks your hard disks at a specified interval and logs warningserrors to the syslog and can also send warnings and errors to a specified email address usually the admin of the system. This should be preinstalled in most linux distributions, or it can be obtained through your package manager. Centos 7 ships with an nvme command the yum package is named nvmecli.
Smartmontools was originally derived from the linux. Gsmartcontrol is a graphical user interface for smartctl from smartmontools package, which is a tool for querying and controlling smart selfmonitoring, analysis, and reporting technology data on modern hard disk drives. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl. The second, smartd, is a daemon that periodically monitors the smart status and reports errors to syslog. Smartmontools was originally derived from the linux smartsuite package and actually supports ataatapisata3 to 8 disks and scsi disks and tape devices. How to monitor harddisk health with smartmontools on ubuntu. Smartctl can take a lot of flags, ill only deal with two of them.
The smartmontools package contains two utility programs for analyzing and monitoring storage devices. Selfmonitoring, analysis, and reporting technology s. The package is compatible with the ataatapi3 to 7 specification. This archive contains a smartctl binary that works like a charm. New options j and jsongiosu to enable experimental json output mode.
The following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by smartmontools. The only external dependency is the smartctl component of the smartmontools package. Even though its over 10 years old, having read it i find its still relevant and provides an authoritative explanation. We are using website to collect data where possible. Smartmontools download for linux apk, deb, eopkg, ipk. All linux distributions provide the smartmontools package, which contain the smartctl program used to display smart information from attached drives. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl and smartd to control and monitor storage systems using the self monitoring, analysis and reporting technology system smart built into most modern atasata, scsisas and nvme disks. Linux is a bootable floppy distribution containing tool smartmontools for monitoring idescsi hard disks using selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology. Introduction to smartmontools the smartmontools package contains utility programs smartctl, smartd to controlmonitor storage systems using the selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology system s. Smartctl is useful on physical linux servers where smart disks can be checked for errors and extract info regarding the disks that are used behind the hardware raid. Using smartctl to get smart status information on your. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl and smartd to control and monitor storage systems using the self monitoring, analysis and reporting technology system smart built into most modern ata and scsi hard disks. Tools for monitoring smart capable hard disks description.
It should run on any modern darwin mac os x, linux, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, solaris. Whatever linux you use, the package name is probably smartmontools. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl and smartd. Use below steps to install smartctl, if it is not installed on your linux box. The tool is located at optsmartmontoolssmartctl and works just like the. To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon, try. While on freebsd and linux it is very fast and easy to install the smartmontools to get the smartctl command, i just had to do the same on a solaris 10 machine. Download smartmontools packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse. The following table provides links to info andor download locations of precompiled smartmontools and gsmartcontrol packages. The a option will display all information available. First of all, lets get started what you can see on an esxi host regarding to endurance without smartctl.