OMV 5 - System monitoring

Look in Notification. Enable Filesystems and S.M.A.R.T. under Notifications tab. Configure the rest in the Settings tab.

Is there any way of getting to know when the last SMART self test was executed - like Time and Date. I have scheduled jobs for the same but I have doubts they are not running as they should be. Is there a way to get when they last ran ?

Yes true. I have been seeing that. Unfortunately the lifetime is just a number its not very handy as I have 4 drives with different lifetimes and not possible for me to remember each one.

My exact problem - I am seeing different number of tests in the Self Test Logs (two drives showing 4, one of them is showing only 1 and another shows only 2 tests). The system has been running continuously since last 1.5 months (with a scheduled reboot every week) and scheduled tests run every week on all drives. So I was expecting there to be more tests and more importantly same number of tests across all drives.

What am i missing?

What exactly am I looking for in those logs?

Will need to monitor it closely.. Due to restart, there was nothing in the SMART log.. I was wondering if it takes a lot to include a timestamp in the Self Test Logs page

Okay I took a look at the SMART log this morning after the scheduled tests were supposed to run -

1. 3 out of the 4 devices are not being opened for monitoring. Open fails according to smartd log (attached)

2. I have a LVM setup with 4 seagate usb hard disks forming 2 logical volumes. Now this causes the lvms to be listed under dev/disk/by-id/ as lvm volumes. Some how the /etc/smartd.conf file is picking up one of these disks instead of the actual physical disks which appear as ata-*.

Any ideas how to resolve this?

Okay I just manually restarted the smartd service and it was able to read and open all my drives for monitoring. So I assume the problem is that the smartd service is starting up too fast and is not able to see the disks as they are not yet initialized in /dev/disk.

How do I delay the start of smartd service ?

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How do I delay the start of smartd service ?

Figured out the answer to this - just did sudo edit systemctl smartd.service and added the following -

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 60
StartLimitInterval=300s

But my /etc/smartd.conf still shows one of the drives as lvm and does not show any scheduled test for that drive (shown below). How to override this permanently ? I am assuming any change i make directly to this file will not survive an upgrade.

Any suggestion would be appreciated. TIA !!