Stephen Gran on 10 Feb 2005 17:00:55 -0000 |
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:56:09AM -0500, eric@lucii.org said: > I had a rude shock when I went to check my hard drives with SpinRite. > It told me that a drive was overheating (57 degrees C) and it figured > it out from SMART. Is there a linux tool that allows me to monitor > this same information so I can see if the added fan is doing the > trick? smartmontools or hddtemp will check this for you. hdparm will also let you do a lot of other kinds of checks and let you fiddle with hard drive settings. munin or mon or nagios can be set up to monitor the output of these commands to let you know when there's a problem (actually smartmontools can be configured to do it's own reporting, the others are one-off tools, and would have to be wrapped by a monitor/reporter to get alerts) HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | But like the Good Book says... There's | | steve@lobefin.net | BIGGER DEALS to come! | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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