SmartMonTools

This connector provides S.M.A.R.T.-enabled physical disk information through the smartd/smartctl utility under Linux

Target

Typical platforms: Dell PowerEdge, Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY, HP ProLiant, IBM xSeries, Sun Fire (x64)

Operating system: Linux

Instrumentation layer: SmartMonTools

Technology used: System commands

Discovered objects

•Physical disks (SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK)

•Temperature sensors (SEN_HW_TEMPERATURE)

Parameters collected

•SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK / PredictedFailure

•SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK / Status

•SEN_HW_TEMPERATURE / Temperature

This connector is able to monitor the local host and/or a remote system.

Credentials

This connector probably requires root privileges for its proper operation. You therefore will need to configure the product to use the root login/password to execute external commands.

Alternatively, you can configure the product to use the sudo utility for the command:
/usr/sbin/smartctl
/bin/dd.