smartcheck - all drives

[theallan]

Hi all,

My server has four physical hard drives, and I've just been looking into making sure that they are monitored for SMART failures so I can get notification if they do fail. It appears that WHM / cPanel has `smartmontools` built in via its `/scripts/smartcheck` script.

When I run it I get:

Using smartcheck version profile "5.43" for smartctl (5.43)
Checking /dev/sdd....Ok​

Which is good, but it appears to be checking only one disk. So the follow on questions are:

• How can I have it check all four disks?
• What e-mail address does it use if a notification needs to be sent out?
• How can I check this is actually running periodically?

I couldn't find any documentation on the above, apologies if I missed it!

Thanks,

 

[cPanelMichael]

• How can I have it check all four disks?
• What e-mail address does it use if a notification needs to be sent out?
• How can I check this is actually running periodically?

Hello,

You can configure notifications for "Disk Integrity Check" via "WHM >> Contact Manager". It's documented at:

Contact Manager - Documentation - cPanel Documentation

I believe the configuration file you are looking for, with information on how/when it runs, is found at:

/etc/smartmontools/smartd.conf

Thank you.