Generate HDD reports?

In Frontview, go to Status>Health then click on the Smart+ button to view the status of each drive.

eton wrote:
How can I generate HDD reports of the type shown in this post? Without downloading all logs within Frontview. Tried that and got a 340 MB large file with all kinds of stuff. I just want to view my HDDs health in as good detail as possible. And what are those reports called?

I have not seen an app to DL only HDD logs, probably it can be done through SSH but that will be much hassle (specially if you are not familiar with it). My advice is to enable your email alerts (System>Alerts) and on System>Alerts>Settings only select the ones that are concerned with HDD (if you only want status of the HDD) .

Nhellie wrote:
I have not seen an app to DL only HDD logs, probably it can be done through SSH but that will be much hassle (specially if you are not familiar with it). My advice is to enable your email alerts (System>Alerts) and on System>Alerts>Settings only select the ones that are concerned with HDD (if you only want status of the HDD) .

I actually prefer SSH and CLI, check my other posts. So I would be very happy if anyone who knows the SSH commands to generate those reports is willing to share them here. :D

A quick one to get current information is this one:

for i in {a..z}; do smartctl -a /dev/sd${i} | egrep -i "Device Model|Serial Number|Reallocated_sec|ATA Er|offline_uncorrect|current_pending_sector|Power_on";done 

It won't go through history though, just show current status of each disk. Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for?

edit: sent you a pm on how to generate the raw data of the smart_history.log

Danthem wrote:
A quick one to get current information is this one: for i in {a..z}; do smartctl -a /dev/sd${i} | egrep -i "Device Model|Serial Number|Reallocated_sec|ATA Er|offline_uncorrect|current_pending_sector|Power_on";done It won't go through history though, just show current status of each disk. Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for?

Thanks @Danthem!!
That was some exotic bash script. Will it work on a Sparc machine?

You would need to change it to /dev/hd${i}

You can try it. If it doesn't work it would only require a further small modification or two to work on Sparc.

I changed the script, but it didn't output anything.

for i in {a..z}; do smartctl -a /dev/hd${i} | egrep -i "Device Model|Serial Number|Reallocated_sec|ATA Er|offline_uncorrect|current_pending_sector|Power_on";done

My HDD devices are /dev/hdc and /dev/hde. And "smartctl -a /dev/hde" worked. I guess the egrep doesn't match the script above.

# smartctl -a /dev/hde
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [padre-linux-2.6.17.14ReadyNAS] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000
Device Model:     Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632
Serial Number:    ML0230FA17AEJD
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 36ad17184
Firmware Version: ML6OAA10
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is:    Tue May 26 21:33:56 2015 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82)	Offline data collection activity
					was completed without error.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(   28) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					No Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 255) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x003d)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   016    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   134   134   054    Pre-fail  Offline      -       100
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   142   142   024    Pre-fail  Always       -       406 (Average 368)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       14
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   144   144   020    Pre-fail  Offline      -       30
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       20500
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       14
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       854
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       854
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   193   193   000    Old_age   Always       -       31 (Min/Max 24/41)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         5         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Sent it to Eton in PM but might as well post it here as well, for Sparc - go for something like this instead:

for i in a b c d e f h i j k; do smartctl -a /dev/hd${i} | egrep -i "Device Model|Serial Number|Reallocated_sec|ATA Er|offline_uncorrect|current_pending_sector|Power_on";done

Danthem wrote:
Sent it to Eton in PM but might as well post it here as well, for Sparc - go for something like this instead: for i in a b c d e f h i j k; do smartctl -a /dev/hd${i} | egrep -i "Device Model|Serial Number|Reallocated_sec|ATA Er|offline_uncorrect|current_pending_sector|Power_on";done

Thanks! That one works. It's only missing the table headline row (ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE).

And yes the problem was that step values used in Danthem's first script are not supported until Bash version 4. But it might be doable with seq and awk etc.

# echo $BASH_VERSION
2.05b.0(1)-release

Made a simple fix to include the headline row:

for i in a b c d e f h i j k; do smartctl -a /dev/hd${i} | egrep -i "Device Model|Serial Number|ATTRIBUTE_NAME|Reallocated_sec|ATA Er|offline_uncorrect|current_pending_sector|Power_on";done