lbatalha / pySMARTnotify

notify when smart values for drives are out of spec

pySMARTnotify

Notify when smart values for drives are out of spec. Uses smartctl --scan to detect drives

Checks if any of the specified SMART ID's RAW_VALUE is > 0 and checks if the WHEN_FAILED field is not "-".

Add drives you want to skip to the ignore list ('dev/something').

Caveats:

• Uses SSL for SMTP.
• SMTP auth password is stored in plain text, so make sure you set proper file access permissions (0700 ?).
• smartctl requires root priviliges, it will try to invoke sudo if not running as root, make sure the user does not have to input a password to run smartctl*
• make sure user can write the "flagged drives" file to the specified path.

Dependencies:

• smartmontools
• python2

*You can add a line to /etc/sudoers: USERNAME ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/smartctl