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SANtools® S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor (SMARTMon-UX)2

1 Using S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor

1.1 General Overview

S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor [Currently at release 1.43] (also referred to as SMARTMon-UX for UNIX, and SMARTMon

for Windows in this document) is part of the SANTOOLS family of utility programs that monitors your disk hardware

with the goal of identifying disks that have a strong possibility of crashing. This provides you a window of opportunity

to gracefully remove data from a failing disk and take it off-line ... Before your disk drive takes you off-line.

The SANTOOLS family of programs allows you to access the predictive failure functionality native to most disk drives.

This hardware feature is called S.M.A.R.T., which stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology.

IBM, Seagate, Fujitsu, Quantum, Western Digital, and other drive manufacturers put this feature into their disk drives.

Typical attributes that are monitored include head flying height, temperature, spin-up time, retries, and internal error

logs. If a drive is running outside of a vendor's specifications, then our software alerts your administrator.

Note: Throughout this manual, when we use the acronym SCSI, we are not implying only parallel-SCSI. Our software

works with serial SCSI devices as well. More common serial SCSI interfaces include Fibre Channel (FC), Serial

Storage Architecture (SSA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Fire wire(FW), and iSCSI. In addition, we support SATA /

ATA disk drives under LINUX, Windows, Apple OSX, and SPARC Solaris

The same goes for ATA. With the advent of serial ATA, then we must differentiate between serial ATA (SATA) and

parallel ATA (PATA). Unless we specifically mention SATA or PATA, this manual will just use the ATA acronym.

And finally, this software is not just for disk drives. Many tape drives have a SMART-like feature called TapeAlert ,

which can be enabled and monitored with this software. Intelligent enclosures, auto changers, tape libraries, and even

SCSI printers can be configured and monitored with this software. We can even drill down inside several FC-based

RAID engines and provide detailed information.

1.2 Hardware & Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

SMARTMon-UX supports SCSI, Fibre Channel, USB, Fire wire (IEEE 1384), ATAPI, SAS, and IBM SSA peripherals

which are physically connected to your system. It will not monitor or discover remote disk drives attached by a network

interface. It will, however, support fibre channel disk drives attached via a storage area network through a hub or

switch.

In addition, the LINUX 32, LINUX 64, OS X, SPARC Solaris, and Windows-family operating systems support IDE

(ATA & SATA) disk drives.

If you have a fibre channel enclosure that supports SCSI Enclosure Services (SES), SMARTMon-UX can be

configured to also monitor the enclosure and it's components.

Software Requirements

SMARTMon-UX for LINUX supports LINUX kernels 2.4 through 2.6. Our LINUX development/test platforms use Red

Hat distributions, but there are no known issues with non-Red Hat LINUX distributions. Both 32-bit X86, 64-bit IA64

(Itanium), and EMT_64 (also called X86_64) versions exist. Our test environment for LINUX is RedHat, and while we

have no known issues with other LINUX variants, it would be unwise to document that we support all versions of

LINUX.

SMARTMon-UX for AIX supports AIX 5.0 and above.

SMARTMon-UX for HP-UX supports HP-UX version 10.x and 11.x using the PA-RISC architecture.

SMARTMon-UX for HP-UX/Itanium supports HP-UX version 11.x on Intel Itanium-family servers.

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