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Add note about SMART and HBA
Signed-off-by: Volker Theile <[email protected]>
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Notifications are integrated with smartmontools. Changes in S.M.A.R.T values are reported via mail.
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Please note that SMART is not supported by |omv| for disks that are
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assembled as a RAID via HBA. |omv| only supports SMART for those
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disks that are connected to an HBA in pass-through mode.
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General
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The grid displays all current block devices in the system with SMART capabilities. From this grid by selecting a drive you can configure if you want smartmontools to watch and inform for any SMART attributes changes during uptime using the edit button.
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Smartmontools is configured in this file :file:`/etc/smartd.conf`.
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The information button displays several tabs which provide friendly parsed information about the drive. The last tab has all the information in raw text.
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The grid columns shows different identification values for the drive, the last one (Status) reports a green icon if drive is in good condition or red if drive needs some attention, if you hover on the icon a tooltip that will report more details. The code that reports the red icon is based on this function `here <https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/blob/9ddc8b66f3f666987157a0e7b84d57e7c10f9ba4/deb/openmediavault/usr/share/php/openmediavault/system/storage/smartinformation.inc#L93-L98>`_ and `here <https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/blob/9ddc8b66f3f666987157a0e7b84d57e7c10f9ba4/deb/openmediavault/usr/share/php/openmediavault/system/storage/smartinformation.inc#L235-L262>`_, so basically the red icon will be triggered only on attributes with the prefailure (P) flag when:

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