Detecting exploding batteries, part 2

[Danny Kukawka]

On Monday 25 September 2006 13:47, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:08:44AM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > What's the next key in HAL? computer.your_disply_can_fail or
> > storage.you_harddisk_die_maybe_in_2_years?
>
> Actually, it might be a good idea to have HAL look at S.M.A.R.T values
> and make and set a "device_failure_imminent" might make good sense.

And es next we implement postfix in HAL ... or the kernel ;-)

For this we have smartd, we don't need to reimplement this logic in HAL:

<qoute>
smartd is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting 
Technology (SMART) system built into many [...] hard drives. The purpose of 
SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive 
failures [...] smartd will attempt to enable SMART monitoring on ATA devices 
[...] and polls these and SCSI devices every 30 minutes, logging SMART errors 
[...] In  addition to logging to a file, smartd can also be configured to 
send email warnings if problems are detected.  [...]
</quote>

Danny