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SANtools® S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor (SMARTMon-UX)240
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· The program no longer accepts invalid options for the -mail command, and provides appropriate warning.
· -ZM option (Mylex-engine-specific) now reports a SAN Mapping table
· -z3d option to report 3Ware internal controller diagnostic dump was added.
· -z3L option to report 3Ware internal controller event log was added.
· New fields were added to the -I+ dump for 3Ware (AMCC) controllers (these include cache policies, battery
information, A/V mode and several others)
· The drive fitness tests now have a user-defined option that allows the tests to terminate on the first error, rather
than requiring them to complete.
· The WWN now prints on all fibre channel disk drives rather than Seagate disks (with the -I+ option).
· Made several cosmetic changes to usage information returned by the -help command
· -capacity command added that changes reported/usable drive capacity on SCSI, FC, & SAS disks.
· -confirm option added to most destructive (and potentially destructive) commands that normally ask an are-you-
sure message
· A "Total Capacity (in bytes)" line was added to the inquiry dumps (-I and -I+ )
· The Windows 9.3 driver update for 3Ware (AMCC) was not compatible with this software so the software did not
recognize any of their RAID controllers. This new build incorporates a revised library that resolves the problem.
· 3ware (AMCC) support has been added to the IA64 LINUX & Windows.
Version 1.29 (Released Aug 2005)
· Added auto-launch program capability in event of a predictive drive failure (the -LB command).
· Added standardized return-codes to facilitate in using SMARTMon-UX in script files.
· Additional scrub family drive fitness tests added.
· Disk firmware flashing support for full family of Fujitsu SCSI and Fibre channel disks added.
· The windows version can now run as a native Windows service routine .
· Infortrend RAID reporting now reports IP settings for the controller.
· Drive firmware flashing logic increases chunk size on non-LINUX platforms in order to marginally speed up drive
flashing process.
· The software now allows you to test predictive failure actions by using the -T flag in combination with sending
out emails, generating event log messages and launching predictive failure scripts . Previously, the -T flag could
only be used to send out a test message via email.
· Added the -sq option which suppresses logging of successful polling messages in the event log specified by
other command-line options.
· Added the -scrubt command to terminate self tests upon first error found.
· In order to support running as a service, the windows release was compiled as a threaded application. This has a
negligible affect on performance.
Version 1.28X (Latest patches released since June 2005)
· Added the -rc command that corrupts blocks to deal with vendor-specific Reverse ECC capability found in
Seagate Cheetah 7 family disks and fixed the problem that prevented the Windows family version of the program
from issuing the command properly.
· Setting the polling frequency to 0 (-F 0 ) instructs the program to poll SMART once then exit.
· Removed terminating line feed character from event log messages (applicable to Windows version only).
· Added 80+ additional vendor-unique entries for Fujitsu MAT family disks and HP C7438A tapes & autochangers.
· New windows-specific -Mail flag for configuring mail servers that require authentication.
Version 1.28 (Released Apr 2005)
· Limited support for ATA disk drives on Apple OS X and SPARC Solaris. The devices cannot yet be polled, but the
detailed configuration information can be reported with the -I .
· Several typos introduced with new functionality were fixed.
· Added subsystems which can be used to detect if a device fails or is removed.
· Logic added to support OS X ATA disks. (-I , -I+ , -O , -S options only. Program does not poll, but does
enumerate devices and report serial number information).
· Fixed buffer overflow that would present itself with -fc option for HBAs that had events in event log where total text >
63 characters.
· -fc command now translates FC-4 types into text (I.e., reports "Fabric services" or "Fibre channel services"
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