How to setup SMART hard disk monitoring in OpenBSD

Enable SMART at boot. Add the following to /etc/rc.local.

echo -n ' smartenable'; /sbin/atactl /dev/wd0c smartenable

Check status every hour. On error a mail is sent to root mail account. Add the following to /var/cron/tabs/root.

# do smart status check
0 * * * * /sbin/atactl /dev/wd0c smartstatus >/dev/null

Test ./sysutils/smartmontools to automate smart management.

TBD.

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