redhat man page for smartd

SMARTD(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 SMARTD(8)

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 predict 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 displays 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(8)