Hello, list!
CentOS 5
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5
logwatch-7.3-5
smartmontools-5.36-3.1.el5
Running smartd to keep an eye on the hard drive. Using logwatch to
monitor logs for events of note. Things like the following keep
showing up in logwatch every night:
--------------------- Smartd Begin ------------------------
/dev/hda :
Prefailure: Seek_Time_Performance (8) changed to
252, 253, 252, 251, 252, 251, 252, 253,
---------------------- Smartd End -------------------------
Checking the actual logs, I can confirm that smartd is reporting the
Seek_Time_Performance value is varying between 251 and 253, inclusive.
From what I can tell with Google, this is fairly normal behavior. As
long as that parameter hovers around a fixed value, and does not trend
steadily in either direction, things are good.
However, logwatch doesn't know that, and keep telling me about it.
In my world, the point of logwatch is to only report things of
relevance, and be silent if nothing interesting is happening.
It occurs to me that it would be really nice if logwatch could
maintain a "tolerance" on this parameter, such that these normal
variations are not reported, but any significant change would be.
My knowledge of logwatch is pretty limited, and unfortunately, I do
not have the time to really dig into the internals of it. Anyone know
if logwatch already has features that could be used for this? Either
way, anyone know how one might go about doing something like this?
-- Ben
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