Configure 'smartmontools' to send email notifications when disk failure

[hunter86_bg]

Here is a short guide for postfix with gmail.
I 've tested it with the smartmontools' reporting script but none of my drives has failed , yet.

[simon_lefisch]

Sorry to revive this thread 1 year later, but I have a couple questions about smartmontools....

I have it installed and configured according to various tutorials I've found on the net. However I'm not sure if it is actually monitoring my HDD's or not. I used htop to see if there was a process running and there is:

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11628 root	20	0 24588	2476   1684 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.05 /usr/sbin/smartd -n -q never

So I assume that smartmontools is monitoring due to that process running but not sure. Is there any way to find a log showing that smartmontools/smartd is running the disk checks I have configured in the /etc/smartmontools/smartd.conf file?

[hunter86_bg]

Check the journal via 'journalctl'.
And open your own thread unless it covers disk monitoring and e-mails