1588532 – [RFE] upgrade smartmontools to a more recent version

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Bug 1588532 - [RFE] upgrade smartmontools to a more recent version

Summary: [RFE] upgrade smartmontools to a more recent version

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	smartmontools
Sub Component:
Version:	7.5
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka
QA Contact:	Maryna Nalbandian
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URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:	1630919 1660473
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2018-06-07 13:36 UTC by Steffen Froemer
Modified:	2022-03-13 15:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)
Fixed In Version:	smartmontools-7.0-1.el7
Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2019-08-06 12:58:12 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2019:2148	0	None	None	None	2019-08-06 12:58:16 UTC

Description Steffen Froemer 2018-06-07 13:36:12 UTC

1. Proposed title of this feature request
Upgrade smartmontools to version 6.6 minimum, to  support option '-l defects'

3. What is the nature and description of the request?
For better monitoring, the customer is asking for newer smartmontools, which support the required option


  smartctl: Print ATA Pending Defects log with -l defects.


4. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)
Customer is monitoring disks in their systems, using smartctl.
With currently missing option '-l defects' customer would be able to monitor hardware more efficiently.

5. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)
Downstream the upstream available package


6. For each functional requirement listed, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented.
current behavior: 
# smartctl -l defects /dev/sdd
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=======> INVALID ARGUMENT TO -l: defects
=======> VALID ARGUMENTS ARE: error, selftest, selective, directory[,g|s], xerror[,N][,error], xselftest[,N][,selftest], background, sasphy[,reset], sataphy[,reset], scttemp[sts,hist], scttempint,N[,p], scterc[,N,M], devstat[,N], ssd, gplog,N[,RANGE], smartlog,N[,RANGE], nvmelog,N,SIZE <=======


expected behavior:
Calling 'smartctl -l defects <device> should not print an error


7. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat Bugzilla?
no


8. Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies and which release would they like to target (i.e. RHEL5, RHEL6)?
next RHEL release (RHEL 7.6)


9. Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any additional input?
no


10. List any affected packages or components.
smartmontools.x86_64


11. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented?
sure

Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2018-11-07 17:43:00 UTC

If this happens, please replace using /usr/libexec/smartmontools/smartdnotify with the default /etc/smartmontools/smartd_warning.sh which provides much better email messages.  See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647534

Comment 4 Tomáš Hozza 2019-02-08 09:52:27 UTC

(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #3)
> If this happens, please replace using
> /usr/libexec/smartmontools/smartdnotify with the default
> /etc/smartmontools/smartd_warning.sh which provides much better email
> messages.  See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647534

Please create a separate bug. This request is for updating smartmontools version, but not to do other functional changes. Thank you.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:58:12 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2148

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