Smartd

`services.smartd.autodetect`

Whenever smartd should monitor all devices connected to the machine at the time it's being started (the default).

Set to false to monitor the devices listed in {option}services.smartd.devices only.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.defaults.autodetected`

Like {option}services.smartd.defaults.monitored, but for the autodetected devices.

Type: strings concatenated with " "

Default

config.services.smartd.defaults.monitored

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.defaults.monitored`

Common default options for explicitly monitored (listed in {option}services.smartd.devices) devices.

The default value turns on monitoring of all the things (see man 5 smartd.conf).

The example also turns on SMART Automatic Offline Testing on startup, and schedules short self-tests daily, and long self-tests weekly.

Type: strings concatenated with " "

Default

"-a"

Example

"-a -o on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../7/04)"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.devices`

List of devices to monitor. Type: list of (submodule)

Default

[ ]

Example

[{device = "/dev/sda";}{device = "/dev/sdb";options = "-d sat";}]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.devices.*.device`

Location of the device. Type: string

Example

"/dev/sda"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.devices.*.options`

Options that determine how smartd monitors the device. Type: strings concatenated with " "

Default

""

Example

"-d sat"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.enable`

Whether to enable smartd daemon from smartmontools package. Type: boolean

Default

false

Example

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.extraOptions`

Extra command-line options passed to the smartd daemon on startup.

(See man 8 smartd.)

Type: list of string

Default

[ ]

Example

["-A /var/log/smartd/""--interval=3600"]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.notifications.mail.enable`

Whenever to send e-mail notifications. Type: boolean

Default

config.services.mail.sendmailSetuidWrapper != null

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.notifications.mail.mailer`

Sendmail-compatible binary to be used to send the messages.

You should probably enable {option}services.postfix or some other MTA for this to work.

Type: path

Default

"/run/wrappers/bin/sendmail"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.notifications.mail.recipient`

Recipient of the notification messages. Type: string

Default

"root"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.notifications.mail.sender`

Sender of the notification messages. Acts as the value of email in the emails' From: ... field.

Type: string

Default

"root"

Example

"example@domain.tld"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/smartd.nix

`services.smartd.notifications.systembus-notify.enable`

Whenever to send systembus-notify notifications.

WARNING: enabling this option (while convenient) should not be done on a machine where you do not trust the other users as it allows any other local user to DoS your session by spamming notifications.

To actually see the notifications in your GUI session, you need to have systembus-notify running as your user, which this option handles by enabling {option}services.systembus-notify.

Type: boolean