SMART.md

Installing Smartmontools

cagent requires smartmontools of version 7.0 and higher

Windows

smartctl binary from smartmontools is shipped with cagent msi installer

MacOS

Using Homebrew

brew install smartmontools

Using DMG installer

Download and install

Linux

Linux distributions may provide outdated installation of smartmontools

Check for available version

apt-get

apt-get update && apt-cache show smartmontools | grep Version

yum

yum info smartmontools | grep Version

If version provided by packaging system less then 7.0 then follow to Install section

Install

Current version 7.0

wget --content-disposition https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/smartmontools/7.0/smartmontools-7.0.tar.gz/download
tar -xvzf smartmontools-7.0.tar.gz
cd smartmontools-7.0
./configure
make
sudo make install