SMART status

[jarednichols]

Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of just the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has a disk image mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of "is not" verified will get tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive?

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[jarednichols]

I think I may have it, but I need a sanity check. How's this look? I don't think I'm not familiar enough with SMART to know what not to look for
J

[milesleacy]

Dummy receipts?
...and yes. That is my answer for everything. Well, almost.

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[tlarkin]

In your script could you not just specify the device node? I mean OS X
is almost always going to be /dev/disk0s2 on a default install. Or I
guess you could pipe out a grep that only checks the boot volume?

Or how Miles put it, a dummy receipt

[#5]

Sounds like you're over-complicating it to me. The boot drive (or any internal drive) will be the only ones that can have a status of "Failing". Scope your smart group to that.

[Bukira]

Yes that's what I do, and I only have 1 internal drive

Criss

[KCH080208]

I cannot find an example of this anyone on the boards. Is there a link somewhere to show the smart status as an extension attribute?