SMARTD(D)                                               SMARTD(D)



NAME
       smartd - S.M.A.R.T. Daemon

SYNOPSIS
       smartd [-X]


DESCRIPTION
       smartd  is  a  daemon  that  monitors the Self-Monitoring,
       Analysis and Reporting Technology System(S.M.A.R.T.) built
       into  ATA-3  and later IDE and SCSI-3 Hard Drives. This is
       used to check the reliability of the hard drive  and  pre-
       dict  drive  failures.   smartd  is    daemon  designed to
       notify users of S.M.A.R.T. errors via SYSLOG interface.



OPTIONS
       smartd accepts single agrument. The options begin  with  a
       '-'.  The  daemon scans for all ATA devices using the form
       "/dev/hd*" and SCSI devices using the form "/dev/sd*" that
       support  S.M.A.R.T.  and have S.M.A.R.T. enabled. It polls
       these devices every 30  minutes  checking  for  S.M.A.R.T.
       errors.


       X      Runs  smartd  "debug"  which runs non fork and dis-
              plays ststus to STDOUT


       EXAMPLES

              smartd - run in forked (daemon mode)



AUTHOR
       Michael Cornwell, cornwell@acm.org
       Concurrent Systems Laboratory
       Jack Baskin School of Engineering
       University of California Santa Cruz
       http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/



smartctl-2.1            September 13, 2001              SMARTD(D)