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Smart Hard Drive Monitoring on AOS 5.1.1

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Dan Eicher:
I've looked into the various threads here, and it seems smartmon monitoring can be done with,
   smartahci, pmsmartctrl and smartmonutils.

 My first go-to is always ANPM.

 Searching ANPM for SMART or SMART* doesn't return anything.

 What is my best bet in 2025 on AOS 5.1.1 to read the smart values stored on a standard SSD?

 I appreciate any feedback.

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

There is SmartMonTools_6-6r4424 in hobbes.
- https://hobbesarchive.com/?detail=/pub/os2/util/disk/SmartMonTools_6-6r4424.zip

The readme says:

--- Quote ---If you are using DANIS506 driver use hdX device names, e.g.

smartctl -i hd0

If you are using OS2AHCI driver use ahciX device names, e.g.

smartctl -i ahci0

To get list of the drives in the system use "smartctl --scan" command.

--- End quote ---

More comments are welcome from people with more experience.

Regards

Dave Yeo:
You may have to update the database from upstream which I think is available at https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#Updatethedrivedatabase.
Also note, no support for nVME drives as the driver is lacking the interface.

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hey Dan!

The CLI stuff is out there (meaning available), but to ease with this stuff check out PMsmartctl:

Author: Peter Brown     email: losepete@losepete.plus.com?subject=PMsmartctl

What Peter did was to build a nifty little util that does a quick pass through your system, gives you a list of available devices and lets you select what SMART info you want to get (which is ultimately produced as a TEXT file).

Very easy to use, good control. Since we did the initial testing for Peter here on the forum I'm not sure where he's gone with this (if anywhere else?).

Dave Yeo:
Wonder how Peter is doing? Been a while since he posted

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