Smartmontools

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| developer = Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, Guido Guenther{{Cite web|url=http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ |title=smartmontools wiki |accessdate=2017-11-28}}

| released = {{start date|2002|10}}

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| latest release version = 7.5[https://www.smartmontools.org/ Official website]

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2025|04|30}}

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| programming language = C, C++

| operating system = Unix-like (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, others) and Microsoft Windows

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| size = 1.3 MB

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| genre = Hard Disk utility

| license = GNU GPL

| website = {{URL|https://www.smartmontools.org/}}

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Smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) is a set of utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into most modern (P)ATA, Serial ATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe hard drives.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAh6mU_sjgsC&pg=PA346|title=Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two |chapter=Hack 78: Avoid Catastrophic Disk Failure |first1= William |last1=von Hagen |first2=Brian K. |last2=Jones |pages=346–350 |publisher= O'Reilly Media, Inc. |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-596-10082-7}} via Google Books{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgFIAnLjb1wC&pg=PT366 |title=Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook |first1=Evi |last1=Nemeth |first2=Garth |last2=Snyder |first3=Trent R. |last3=Hein |first4=Ben |last4=Whaley |publisher=Pearson Education |year=2010 |page=366 |isbn=9780132117364 }}

Smartmontools displays early warning signs of hard drive problems detected by S.M.A.R.T., often giving notice of impending failure while it is still possible to back data up.{{Cite web|url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983 |title=Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART |publisher=Linux Journal |date=2004-01-01 |accessdate=2010-07-26 |authorlink=Bruce Allen (physicist)|first=Bruce|last= Allen }}

From late 2010 ATA Error Recovery Control configuration has been supported by Smartmontools, allowing it to configure many desktop-and laptop-class hard drives for use in a RAID array and vice versa.{{cite web |url=http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/projects/erc/ |first=Richard |last=Gregory |title=Error recovery control with smartmontools |publisher=Liverpool University Department of Computer Science |accessdate=2013-11-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928190045/http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/projects/erc/ |archivedate=2011-09-28 }}

Most Linux distributions provide the smartmontools package.{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1389 |title=Using smartctl to get SMART status information on your hard drives |publisher=TechRepublic |date=2010-03-30 |first=Vincent |last=Danen |accessdate=2010-07-26 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120707014133/http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/using-smartctl-to-get-smart-status-information-on-your-hard-drives/1389 |archivedate=2012-07-07 |url-status=dead }}

User interface

=Native=

smartctl and smartd have a command-line interface. By default the output of smartctl is in human readable form; to aid logic trying to parse this output, JSON output is also available.

=Third-party GUI=

[https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io GSmartControl] is an open-source multi-platform graphical user interface (GUI) for smartctl developed by Alexander Shaduri.{{Cite web|url=http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-smart-are-your-disks.html |title=How S.M.A.R.T. are your disks? |publisher=LinuxInsight |date=2009-02-08 |accessdate=2010-07-26}}
SMART Utility is a program for Mac OS X with a GUI based on smartmontools.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/174687/smart_utility_monitors_hard_drives_health.html |title=SMART Utility Monitors Hard Drives' Health |first=Dan |last=Frakes |publisher=PC World |date=2009-10-29 |accessdate=2010-07-26}}{{dead link|date=December 2023}}
HDD Guardian was an open-source Windows-only GUI for smartctl,{{cite web|url=https://hddguardian.codeplex.com/|title=HDD Guardian 0.7.1 (archived)|website=hddguardian.codeplex.com|date=5 January 2017|accessdate=14 May 2017|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108190610/https://hddguardian.codeplex.com/|archivedate=8 January 2017}} discontinued on 28 April 2017. The author said that the program could still be downloaded from various sites, but that the entire HDD Guardian project (source code, builds and documentation) had been retired.{{cite web |url=https://hddguardian.codeplex.com/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514213433/http://hddguardian.codeplex.com/|archivedate=14 May 2017|url-status=dead|title=HDD Guardian - Home |website=hddguardian.codeplex.com|date=28 April 2017|accessdate= 14 May 2017}}

References

External links

[https://www.smartmontools.org/ Official website]
[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools Smartmontools on Ubuntu Wiki]
[https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART Large collection of smartctl reports for various hard drives]

Category:Free software programmed in C

Category:Hard disk software