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Amandasaurus
Asked: 2009-08-01 05:24:19 +0800 CST

Is there a way to share S.M.A.R.T. data over SNMP?

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Is there a way to share S.M.A.R.T. data over SNMP? I'd like to be able to make cacti graphs of it and hook it up to Nagios.

What I want to do is be able to get some statistics on my harddisks accessible over SNMP. This will allow me to graph the number of $SMART_MEASUREMENT_VALUE against time.

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  1. Best Answer

    Maybe this will suit your needs: Quoted from this link:

    You'll need the SmartMonTools package and use check_smart.pl perl script (nagios plugin) to check hard drive health by running S.M.A.R.T. self-tests using the smartctl command, add to your snmpd.conf:

    exec CheckSmart /path/to/check_smart.pl -t -d /dev/hda

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  2. There are patches that add SNMP support to smartd (in smartmontools-devel@ list); none were integrated, as far as I remember.

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  3. Maxwell answer is right, but is missing the download a url for the script:

    http://git.recluse.de/?p=users/bzed/nagios-plugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=plugins/check_smart

    i also add this line below on line 109 of the script, to avoid a warning

    if (!defined($number)) { $number = 0; }

    For those without nagios, the script requires a util.pm lib. Debian users can get it from nagios-plugins package and other users can grab it from here:

    https://github.com/Elbandi/nagios-plugins/blob/master/plugins-scripts/utils.pm.in

    the usage is simple:

    ./check_smart.pl  -i scsi  -d /dev/sda

    but i agree with exquisitor comment, a way to graph all (or at least some important) smart values would be great

    UPDATE: the script DO output other smart values, but only if you choose the ata interface (-i ata). As today all drivers (even ata/sata) are seem as scsi devices, this create confusion (and its probably a bug) So i recommend for those with ata/sata drivers to edit the script and on line 209 replace the check from "ata" to "scsi"

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