Munin and SMART: monitor hard drives
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Documentation
smart_ plugin
http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/PluginPortrait/smart_
Overview
See the list of hard drives in your system.
Notice entries like /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc. Ignore the partitions labelled /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.
# ls /dev/sd*Configuration
Check where the munin plugins are storted in your system. Depending on your distribution, the plugins might be found here:
usr/share/munin/plugins/On Gentoo, they are found here:
/usr/libexec/munin/plugins/The following will monitor /dev/sda:
# ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/smart_ /etc/munin/plugins/smart_sda
// OR, depending on your distribution:
# ln -s /usr/libexec/munin/plugins/smart_ /etc/munin/plugins/smart_sdaRestart the munin-node:
# service munin-node restartCheck that the plugin is properly activated:
$ nc localhost 4949
# munin node at localhost
list
... smart_sda ...In the commands above, use the appropriate host name, and make sure smart_sda and other drives you might have configured are properly listed in the list of plugins.