monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of hard drives?

[c0mputernick]

Ive looked around the forum and wiki and cant seem to find a way to monitor the SMART status of a hard driveif its enabled. Can Zabbix do this?
This would be a great little tool to alert you to an upcoming drive failure.
Anyone know how this can be done, or if there is an add on script or anything?

Thanks.

[c0mputernick]

Wow really? nothing? does the lack of response mean it cant be done? or no one knows how to do it?

I expected that functionality to be a pretty common requirement, who wouldn't want to know when a drive is dying in a machine?

[nelsonab]

Here's what I use

In the zabbix_agentd.conf file

UserParameter=system.smartd[*],sudo smartctl -A $1| grep $2| tail -1| cut -c 88-|cut -f1 -d' '

In my sudoers file:

zabbix ALL= (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/smartctl

In my syslog-ng conf file I added the following to prevent an overload of messages

destination zbx_smartd { file("/dev/null" perm(0666)); };
filter f_zbx_smartd { match("sudo:   zabbix : TTY=unknown ; PWD=\/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=\/usr\/sbin\/smartctl -A \/dev\/"); };
log { source(src); filter(f_zbx_smartd); destination(zbx_smartd); flags(final);};

Attached is the template I use

This is running on OpenSuSE 10.x and 11.x and the template was exported from Zabbix 1.6.5