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Re: [PLUG] Hardware monitoring
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:45:46PM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> Hi Eric:
>
> * eric@lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> [2005-02-10 18:26:39 -0500]:
> > Actually I already have smarttools installed (SuSE 9.1 prof)
> > so I created a simple shell script to monitor things temporarily:
> >
> > while test 1=1;
> > do
> > echo -n `date "+%H:%M:%S"`
> > smartctl -a /dev/hda |grep -i celsius|gawk '{printf(" ");print $10}'
> > sleep 5
> > done
>
> That's probably more often than necessary. I record my disk temps at
> 5 *minute* intervals from a cron job. Since your disk temp was out of
> spec for a while, you might also try these:
>
> display the error log:
> # smartctl -l error /dev/hda
>
> begin a short selftest, (OK to keep the disk mounted):
> # smartctl -t short /dev/hda
>
> display the selftest results (after having waited a couple minutes):
> # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Mark M. Hoffman
> mhoffman@lightlink.com
You are correct - 5 minutes is far more reasonable. I'm just paranoid
right now and wanted to see the fine granularity. After your presentation
next month I'm sure I'll know a LOT more about what I'm doing.
Eric
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