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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    Re: [smartmontools-support] Superfluous smartmontools messages
From:       Christian Franke <Christian.Franke () t-online ! de>
Date:       2010-08-23 19:53:50
Message-ID: 4C72D1CE.6060303 () t-online ! de
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Larry Bates wrote:
>  My apologies for the "html laden" earlier post
>
> I have two servers with 8 SATA drives each and I periodically get emailed
> messages like the following:
>
> Aug 10 11:18:41 gfs01 smartd[3597]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 112 to 110
>
> Now the problem is that these messages just seem to move back and 
> forth (i.e.
> 110 to 112, then 112 to 110, etc) and don't appear to accomplish 
> anything.
>
> Aug 10 11:18:41 gfs01 smartd[3597]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Prefailure
> Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 110 to 111
>
> Is there some way I can get rid of this "noise" so that messages that 
> I receive
> are less frequent and more meaningful?
>

Not yet, but such a feature would make sense. I added a ticket:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/ticket/90

Thanks,
Christian


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