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[lupimiguel]

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.

Make smartd_log plugin also search /var/lib/smartmontools on ubuntu instead of failing when /var/log/smartd is missing

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-…

False alarms detection

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!