logwatch, smartd, and a varying parameter (Seek_Time_Performance)

[Dave Johnson]

Ben Scott writes:
>   Checking the actual logs, I can confirm that smartd is reporting the
> Seek_Time_Performance value is varying between 251 and 253, inclusive.
>  From what I can tell with Google, this is fairly normal behavior.  As
> long as that parameter hovers around a fixed value, and does not trend
> steadily in either direction, things are good.
> 
>   However, logwatch doesn't know that, and keep telling me about it.
> In my world, the point of logwatch is to only report things of
> relevance, and be silent if nothing interesting is happening.
> 
>   It occurs to me that it would be really nice if logwatch could
> maintain a "tolerance" on this parameter, such that these normal
> variations are not reported, but any significant change would be.
> 
>   My knowledge of logwatch is pretty limited, and unfortunately, I do
> not have the time to really dig into the internals of it.  Anyone know
> if logwatch already has features that could be used for this?  Either
> way, anyone know how one might go about doing something like this?

Unsure about logwatch, but you can tell smartd to ignore that value
with -I in the config file.  It'll still log it if it goes out of the
safe range (that can be turned off with -i).

-- 
Dave