proxmox smartctl wrapper

smartctl-wrapper.sh

#!/bin/bash

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# simple mod of smartctl-wrapper.sh for proxmox
# https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/issues-with-hp-p420i-and-smart.79669/#post-418226
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# Author: udo.rader@bestsolution.at
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#  smartctl_cciss.sh
#
#  Wrapper that converts
#
#    '$ smartctl [...] /dev/sda' to '$ smartctl -d cciss,0 [...] /dev/sda'
#    '$ smartctl [...] /dev/sdb' to '$ smartctl -d cciss,1 [...] /dev/sdb'
#    '$ smartctl [...] /dev/sdc' to '$ smartctl -d cciss,2 [...] /dev/sdc'
#    ...
#    '$ smartctl [...] /dev/sdp' to '$ smartctl -d cciss,15 [...] /dev/sdp'
#
#  Per definition (see man smartctl(8)), the maximum number of devices
#  supported by the cciss driver is 15, so the /dev/sdp is the "highest"
#  device accepted (p=15).
#
#  This is useful for certain HP RAID/HBA controllers that expose the block
#  devices they control as /dev/sdX, but still require '-d cciss,N' to be
#  present when used with smartctl.
#
#  At the bottom line, this saves you the extra commandline switch  plus at
#  the same time allows other tools to read out the SMART values without any
#  further configuration on their side (eg. the proxmox admin interface
#  showing SMART values).
#
#  To wrap the original smartctl binary using this script, rename the script
#  to /usr/sbin/smartctl.orig and use this script as a replacement, eg like
#  this:
# 
#  $ mv /usr/sbin/smartctl /usr/sbin/smartctl.orig
#  $ cp /path/of/the/downloaded_wrapper/smartctl_cciss.sh /usr/sbin/smartctl
#  $ chmod 755 /usr/sbin/smartctl
#
#  Later updates of the smartmontools package will probably overwrite the
#  wrapper, so what you can do to prevent this is to make the in place
#  wrapper immutable like this:
#
#  $ chattr +i /usr/sbin/smartctl
#
#  ... but this may have some sideffects afterwards (eg. updates might
#  complain that they cannot update the now immutable file).
#
#  This is a little bit hackish, but it does the job well enough for me :)

SMARTCTL=/usr/sbin/smartctl.orig
OPTIONS=("$@")

d_realtek=("d" "e")
d_jmicron=()

for((i=1; i<$#; ++i)); do
    device_letter="${OPTIONS[i]#/dev/sd}"
    # proceed only if the given device is in device lists.
    if [[ " ${d_realtek[*]} " =~ " ${device_letter} " ]]; then
        d_opt="-d sntrealtek"
        # add the "-d X" option to the list of options
        OPTIONS=($d_opt "${OPTIONS[@]}")
    fi
    if [[ " ${d_jmicron[*]} " =~ " ${device_letter} " ]]; then
        d_opt="-d sntjmicron"
        OPTIONS=($d_opt "${OPTIONS[@]}")
    fi
done

exec $SMARTCTL "${OPTIONS[@]}"