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S.M.A.R.T. Values Monitor/Processor

Capabilities

Monitoring Directly/Locally or via Network/Internet

A tool to monitor normalized and raw values for (critical) S.M.A.R.T. parameters directly/locally (only Linux operating system) or as BSD sockets client (Microsoft Windows, Linux operating systems). S.M.A.R.T. values are retrieved periodically in an interval.

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S.M.A.R.T. Parameter Value Unit Auto-Detection

For some S.M.A.R.T. attributes (Power-On Time, Total Data Written, ...) units are tried to be determined.

Multiple Data Carriers

Also the software is capable to monitor more than 1 storage media/data carrier at the same time.

Usage Of Appropriate Values

Basically this application uses the normalized current values for detecting how critical the corresponding S.M.A.R.T. parameter is as rating. But in some cases, for example the temperature, it is more senseful to rely on raw values. Because some manufacturers don't follow the convention that lower normalized current values for a S.M.A.R.T. parameter mean a worse state.

Debian(-based) Linux

For Debian(-based) Linux 3 packages: common files, client, service can be created with included shell scripts.

Both GUI/client and daemon/server/service depend on the "common files" (data files, configuration files) package.

systemd

For systemd the service can be installed (for example using Debian package post-installation script).

Building

See here

Tests

minClient

BSD sockets S.M.A.R.T. client with minimal dependencies on the source code.

minSMARTmonClientDerived

BSD sockets S.M.A.R.T. client derived from class "SMARTmonitorClient".

readAllSupportedSMART_IDsTime

Measures time to read all S.M.A.R.T. attributes supported by a certain drive.

Running

If the wxWidgets GUI was built with dynamic wxWidgets libraries, then their directories must be in "Path" environment variable.

Authors

Stefan Gebauer, M.Sc. Comp. Sc.

License

Copyright by Stefan Gebauer, no commercial use without grant. If you want to use the code in a commercial product then contact the author.

The source code is also provided to enable customization of the software.

You may use the code free of charge

• to study the implementation and quality (of one of the authour's software products) so bugs can be reported.

• to build targets (wxWidgets GUI, Linux service [...] ) of the software in order to test it, especially if a binary is not provided for another platform (CPU, Operating System)

• in a non-commercial product if it is not in competition with an author's software product (repositories from http://github.com/st-gb).

  If in doubt which applications this affects then ask the author.

It is appreciated to reference the author (e.g. in the "about" dialog or README.txt) if using this code. Therefore please refer to this github user page and/or to "it-gebauer.de".