Ideas for parsing smartctl output for impending doom.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Ideas for parsing smartctl output for impending doom.

Slack3r: Feb 20, 2004

I have been playing with smartctl lately. Does anyone know how to parse the output file of smartctl -a /dev/XXX for impending failure? There are several attributes that I would like to monitor and if they increase, it would be awesome to receive an email or notification. CrystalDisk Windows has a nifty email and seems to tag a drive as "CAUTION" when it detects errors. Linux/smartctl will happily report "SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED" on a failing drive. Even though certain attributes are starting to fail..

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