Re: smartd

["Mad Unix" <madunix@xxxxxxxxx>]

since am using Harware RAID controller, am gonna disable it... and use the monitoring tools of dell

Thanks

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:50 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mad Unix wrote:

last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS 146G I found the smartd running , I did not request such daemon

[root@PowerEdge1 pons]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Device: /dev/sda, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sda' to turn on SMART features
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 32 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Device /dev/sda not available
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8045]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=8045.
Aug 25 08:27:31 PowerEdge1 pcscd: winscard.c:304:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found

How can i disable it, do i really need it on my system ... inputs really appreciated.

well, if you configure your disks to enable SMART, it can provide advance disk failure information.   if the disks are on hardware PERC raid, then you probably cant use SMART, and instead would use whatever RAID controller monitoring software dell provides...


otherwise,, um, like any service,...

  # chkconfig smartd off
  # service smartd stop

will disable it from running on the next boot, and stop it now.
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