Hard disk monitoring tools
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smartmontools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
As mentioned by somebody on the devel mailing list, but apparently never bugged
here, smartmontools could be used to construct a graphical UI program that
monitors the hard disk and warns of imminent failure.
The tool should sit in the system tray and spin idle. Every so often it should
do an offline smart long test on all hard drives. There should also be
controlled on-demand scanning.
- Tool starts on log-in by default
- Tool communicates with a daemon
- Daemon communicates with smartmond
- Daemon allows offline tests without rootauth -- offline tests suspend on any
command, so are mostly harmless
- Offline tests w/o auth should be restricted to one every 24 hours! (to
prevent malicious motor burn-out or whatnot; though constant find / and cat can
do the same thing)
- Daemon automatically performs tests at configured intervals -- default 7 days
- Tools need no auth to get SMART status
- Tool sits in tray with indicator icon -- idle, testing, alert
- Alert should take advantage of any future feature of Gnome that allows for
hiding of inactive systray icons (like in XP) to become visible
- Alert should appear whenever a drive is failing or expected to fail!
This would facilitate the same functions as existing offline utilities such as
Western Digital Drive Fitness Test or other things, without booting off Ultimate
BootCD or floppy
A feature specification is in progress here: udu.wiki. ubuntu. com/SMARTMonito ring
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