I would like to monitor the spindown status of my hard drives. For this, I found the following shell script which works when I call it at bootup via
./check_hdd_spindown.sh /dev/sda /dev/sdb >> /var/log/spindown.log
However, the script has a couple of setbacks:
- it must always run in the background and thus uses up system resources
- it does not integrate in the web-gui or monitoring
- finding out how many hours a disk was spinning a day from the log alone is a pain
Is there any easier way to monitor disk spindown status - maybe even something that integrates into the OMV monitoring?
Bash: check_hdd_spindown.sh
while [ 1 ]
do
i=0
for DRIVE in $*
do
DATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
RESULT_OLD=${RESULT[$i]}
RESULT[$i]=`hdparm -C $DRIVE | grep state`
if [ "$RESULT_OLD" != "${RESULT[i]}" ]
then echo $DATE $DRIVE ${RESULT[i]}
fi
i=$i+1
done
sleep 5
done