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+Disk Health Monitoring
+----------------------
+include::attributes.txt[]
+
+Altough a robust and redundant storage is recommended,
+it can be very helpful to monitor the health of your local disks.
+
+Starting with {pve} 4.3, the package smartmontools footnote:[smartmontools homepage https://www.smartmontools.org]
+is installed and required. This is a set of tools to monitor and control
+the S.M.A.R.T. system for local hard disks.
+
+You can get the status of a disk by issuing the following command:
+----
+# smartctl -a /dev/sdX
+----
+
+where /dev/sdX is the path to one of your local disks.
+
+If the output says:
+
+----
+SMART support is: Disabled
+----
+
+you can enable it with the command:
+
+----
+# smartctl -s on /dev/sdX
+----
+
+For more information on how to use smartctl, please see `man smartctl`.
+
+By default, smartmontools daemon smartd is active and enabled, and scans
+the disks under /dev/sdX and /dev/hdX every 30 minutes for errors and warnings, and sends an
+e-mail to root if it detects a problem.
+
+For more information about how to configure smartd, please see `man smartd` and
+`man smartd.conf`.
+
+If you use your hard disks with a hardware raid controller, there are most likely tools
+to monitor the disks in the raid array and the array itself. For more information about this,
+please refer to the vendor of your raid controller.
* link:/wiki/System_Software_Updates[System Software Updates]
+* link:/wiki/Disk_Health_Monitoring[Disk Health Monitoring]
+
* link:/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)[Logical Volume Manager (LVM)]
* link:/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux[ZFS on Linux]
include::pve-network.adoc[]
+include::pve-disk-health-monitoring.adoc[]
+
include::local-lvm.adoc[]
include::local-zfs.adoc[]