ml35
June 20, 2022, 12:01pm
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I haven’t log in here for a year or so. I went to notifications, I click the thread, but it tells me it doesn’t exist or is private.
ubuntu smartd version 6.5+svn4324-1ubuntu0 and later (ubuntu 18.04 and newer) does not run with -A but still writes metrics into /var/lib/smartmontools csv files
it would be useful to make the plugin also search for this path instead of the default /var/log/smartd, which would allow smartd support out of the box
from ubuntu 18.04 man page
-A PREFIX, --attributelog=PREFIX
If this option is not specified, attribute information is written to files ´/var/lib/smartmontools/attrlog.MODEL-…
I get flooded with false alarms. I spend a lot of time adjusting the thresholds but I never get the perfect setup. I am thinking how to reduce the number of alarms.
Using solely the threshold criteria is not enough and sometimes even misleading!
For example, a 10min_disk_backlog of 5000ms is perfectly expected on a server that does some work it was designed for, but a 200ms on the same server when idle it would indicate a hardware disk issue. Setting the threshold at 6000ms would eliminate the…
Hi @ml35 , yes we deprecated this category because all the feature request are now submitted to GitHub
Feature request form for Netdata cloud Feature request form for Netdata Agent
Tasos,
ml35
June 21, 2022, 12:06pm
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is there any way I can view those discussions or are they gone for good? I invested quite a lot of time thinking and writing to forums about idea in the false alarm detection thread.
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Hi @ml35 how are you today?
I’ve changed the category on your threads so you can see the replies.
As @Tasos_Katsoulas mentioned, the feature requests category in the Forums was deprecated in favour of discussing them directly in the repositories, whether through an issue template or Github Discussions.
ubuntu smartd version 6.5+svn4324-1ubuntu0 and later (ubuntu 18.04 and newer) does not run with -A but still writes metrics into /var/lib/smartmontools csv files
it would be useful to make the plugin also search for this path instead of the default /var/log/smartd, which would allow smartd support out of the box
from ubuntu 18.04 man page
-A PREFIX, --attributelog=PREFIX
If this option is not specified, attribute information is written to files ´/var/lib/smartmontools/attrlog.MODEL-…
I get flooded with false alarms. I spend a lot of time adjusting the thresholds but I never get the perfect setup. I am thinking how to reduce the number of alarms.
Using solely the threshold criteria is not enough and sometimes even misleading!
For example, a 10min_disk_backlog of 5000ms is perfectly expected on a server that does some work it was designed for, but a 200ms on the same server when idle it would indicate a hardware disk issue. Setting the threshold at 6000ms would eliminate the…
Let me know if we can help with anything else, thank you for your contributions and have a nice day!
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