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mode is to provide a means to have the program manage a configuration file, rather than require you to edit one
manually.
This section of the documentation makes frequent use of screen snapshots. All computer-generated output is shown
in blue, and all entered text is shown in red.
# smartmon-ux -K
(device information displays here)
Command (Enter ? for help): ?
?: Help
S: Select device for threshold definition
A: Add threshold entries for selected device
V: View all defined thresholds
D: Delete range of threshold entries
P: Purge ALL threshold entries (erase all defined thresholds)
L: Load threshold entries from file
W: Write threshold entries to file
Q: Quit this function
Command (Enter ? for help):
Option S - Select Device
This displays a list of discovered devices for this machine and assigns an index number to each of them. You then
select a device which will be used to add threshold entries. The selected device is applicable to adding (or modifying)
threshold entries. Only choices applicable to the selected device will display. Below is the dump for a Windows-based
machine. If you were attached to a UNIX machine, you would not see the adapter, channel, port, and ID information,
but you would see the standard UNIX device driver name for the peripheral.
Command (Enter ? for help): S
Device# Adapter Port Channel ID Description Device Path
* 0 4 2 3 0 SEAGATE ST1181677FC \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE5
1 4 2 4 0 HITACHI DK31CJ-72FC \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE6
2 4 2 5 0 SGI ST336704FC \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE7
3 4 2 6 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE8
4 4 2 7 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE9
5 4 2 8 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE10
6 4 2 9 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE11
7 4 2 10 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE12
8 4 2 11 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE13
9 4 2 12 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE14
10 4 2 13 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE15
11 4 2 14 0 IBM DNEF-309170 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE16
12 3 0 3 0 TANDBERG SLR7 \\.\TAPE0 <--(See example below for adding
thresholds)
13 3 0 6 0 HP C1533A \\.\TAPE1
14 2 0 0 0 TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202 \\.\CDROM0
Select Device (0) : 12
Note that the (*) indicates the currently selected device. By default, the first discovered device will always be selected.
Option A - Add threshold entries for selected device
This is the heart of configuring an event. SMARTMon-UX presents all known values (a combination of ANSI-standard
log parameters and our extensive list of vendor-unique fields that we have obtained from manufacturers of most
FC and SCSI peripherals). SMARTMon-UX runs through this list, querying the selected device and presenting you
with the current value as well as any defined action settings.
In the example below, we wish to monitor and report the cumulative number of minutes our Tandberg SLR7 tape drive
has been powered on. (Not very useful in the real world, but a simple example to tutorial purposes). Note that we
selected the Tandberg, which is device #12, above.
Command (Enter ? for help): A
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