Disk Smart Status - OS Test
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) is an automatic monitoring and failure detection system for hard drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). This system is designed to alert you to any issues it finds. Tracking SMART status of the disk drives helps administrators to detect various reliability indicators to anticipate impending hardware failures. The identified indicators alert administrators of potential drive failures so that they can take remedial steps to avoid data loss and replace failed drives to preserve data integrity. The Disk Smart Status - OS test helps administrators in this regard!
This test monitors disk partitions of the disk drives on the Windows systems, and reports the SMART status of each disk partition. If the status is reported as "Degraded" or "Pred-Fail", it indicates that the disk drive is showing early signs of failure whereas the disk drive may still be operational but it is highly likely to fail soon. In such cases, administrators should initiate necessary actions (for example, copying all important files and documents to a safe location (external drive, cloud, or another system) before the disk drive completely fails.
Target of the test : A Windows Systems Group
Agent deploying the test : A remote agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for every combination of systemname:disk drives:disk_partition
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Test Period |
How often should the test be executed. |
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Host |
The nick name of the Windows Systems Group component for which this test is to be configured. |
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Port |
Refers to the port at which the specified host listens to. By default, this is NULL. |
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Inside View Using |
To obtain the 'inside view' of performance of the systems - i.e., to measure the internal performance of the systems - this test uses a light-weight eG VM Agent software deployed on each of the systems. Accordingly, this parameter is by default set to eG VM Agent. |
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Report By User |
This flag is set to No by default. This implies that the Windows systems in environments will always be identified using the system name. In other words, this test will, by default, report measures for every systemname. On the other hand, if you want this test to report the measures for every user on a system, then set this flag to Yes. In such a case, this test will report the measures for every username_on_systemname. |
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Report Powered OS |
By default, this flag is set to Yes, then the 'inside view' tests will report measures for even those Windows systems that do not have any users logged in currently. The systems will be identified by their name and not by the username_on_systemname. On the other hand, if this flag is set to No, then this test will not report measures for those systems to which no users are logged in currently. |
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Is Cloud VMs? |
This flag is set to Yes by default. The value of this flag cannot be changed. This implies that the cloud-based Windows systems in environments will always be identified using the login name of the user. In other words, in cloud environments, this test will, by default, report measures for every username_on_systemname. |
| Measurement | Description | Measurement Unit | Interpretation | ||||||||
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Operational status |
Indicates the current operational status of this disk. |
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The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are discussed in the table above:
Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above. In the graph of this measure however, the value of this measure is represented using their numeric equivalents only. |
