[From nobody Wed Nov 4 15:57:04 2026 Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 22 Apr 2022 20:22:40 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2018-09-13) on buxtehude.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD,FOURLA,FREEMAIL_FROM,GMAIL,HAS_PACKAGE, KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_IN_PBL,RDNS_DYNAMIC, SPF_SOFTFAIL,SPOOFED_FREEMAIL,SPOOF_GMAIL_MID,TXREP,XMAILER_REPORTBUG autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 52; hammy, 150; neutral, 171; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--XDebbugsCc, 0.000-+--X-Debbugs-Cc, 0.000-+--sk:taint_o, 0.000-+--sk:TAINT_O, 0.000-+--bookworm Return-path: <atgayol@gmail.com> Received: from 22.84.117.91.dynamic.reverse-mundo-r.com ([91.117.84.22]:46744 helo=[127.0.1.1]) by buxtehude.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <atgayol@gmail.com>) id 1nhznb-0005Gi-U7 for submit@bugs.debian.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2022 20:22:40 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Antonio Trueba <atgayol@gmail.com> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> Subject: monitoring-plugins-basic: check_ide_smart introduces risk of data loss Message-ID: <165065895522.21315.2227369585075917062.reportbug@urco> X-Mailer: reportbug 11.4.1 Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:22:35 +0200 Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: monitoring-plugins-basic Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: atgayol@gmail.com Dear maintainer, I've been relying on check_ide_smart for some time to monitor my HDDs and up to now there has never been a malfunction reported, with all disks being reported as passing all tests and in the OK status. While setting up a new server I've found two issues with this plugin that I think should be enough to mark it as deprecated, both in Debian and in upstream: - It just doesn't recognize drives connected through an HBA, even though smartctl does. This is a known limitation of the plugin. - When using a more up to date alternative, I've found that some of the HDDs that check_ide_smart was reporting as OK have in fact reached some pre-failure conditions and are worth replacing. This isn't related to the hardware interface as those drives are in production and have been monitored with check_ide_smart for quite some time, I've just changed the monitoring plugin. So, as check_ide_smart isn't properly reporting HDD status (or, at least, failing to report early warnings) I believe keeping it available as is introduces the risk for a potential data loss. There are alternatives available, so I suggest to consider substituting the plugin instead of updating it. The best I've found is Kurt Yoder and Claudio Kuenzler's check_smart[1][2], but I'm not sure of the licensing status (the code shows that "This script was initially created under contract for the US Government and is therefore Public Domain", but there's no specific license mentioned). Regards. [1]https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins/check_smart.php [2]https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/System-Metrics/Storage- Subsystem/check_smart-2Epl--2D-physical-drive-monitoring/details -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'bullseye-fasttrack'), (100, 'bullseye-backports-staging') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-basic depends on: ii iputils-ping 3:20211215-1 ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libssl1.1 1.1.1n-1 pn monitoring-plugins-common <none> ii procps 2:3.3.17-7+b1 ii ucf 3.0043 Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-basic recommends: ii libcap2-bin 1:2.44-1 Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-basic suggests: pn icinga2 <none> ]