# Check\_ide\_smart no longer working

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/check-ide-smart-no-longer-working/14338>\
**Category:** Service Monitoring\
**Created:** [November 26, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/check-ide-smart-no-longer-working/14338 "2024-11-26T09:16:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bebef](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/bebef/32/2691_2.png) [@Bebef](https://community.icinga.com/u/Bebef)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/check-ide-smart-no-longer-working/14338/1 "2024-11-26T09:16:35Z")

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Hi Icinga community,

I have re-installed my Icinga setup on a new machine, moving from Ubunto to Debian in the process.

While I was able to use `check_ide_smart` before, I now only get `CRITICAL - SMART_CMD_ENABLE` as output. This is regardless of the actual disk being checked and happens with _any_ disk. It also doesn’t matter if I run it in Icinga or on the command line.

I have checked smart capabilities, and `smartctl` happily reports SMART values on any of those drives, so SMART capability _and_ querying aren’t the issue.

I wonder if there may be dependencies that `check_ide_smart` would rely on that may have not been installed. Obviously, it isn’t `smartmontools`.

If you have any idea what might be happening and how to fix it, I’m all ears (eyes?).

Cheers,  
Steffen

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**Author:** ![bberg](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@bberg](https://community.icinga.com/u/bberg)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/check-ide-smart-no-longer-working/14338/2 "2024-11-26T13:16:08Z")

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Hey there Steffen,

maybe raise an issue on [GitHub - monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins: Monitoring Plugins](https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins)  
I can also find other checks like this, who might do something similar:  
[GitHub - Napsty/check\_smart: Monitoring Plugin to check hard drives, solid state drives and NVMe drives using SMART](https://github.com/Napsty/check_smart)

Also, depending on your setup you might also be able to monitor hard drive/ssd health from the IPMI - check\_redfish from bb-ricardo is a pretty neat solution for this:

> **[GitHub - bb-Ricardo/check\_redfish: A monitoring/inventory plugin to check components...](https://github.com/bb-Ricardo/check_redfish)**
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> A monitoring/inventory plugin to check components and health status of systems which support Redfish. It will also create a inventory of all components of a system.

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![lorenz](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/lorenz/32/7666_2.png) [@lorenz](https://community.icinga.com/u/lorenz)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/check-ide-smart-no-longer-working/14338/3 "2024-11-28T15:58:05Z")

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Wild guess, does it work if you execute the plugin as the user `root`?

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**Author:** ![Bebef](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/bebef/32/2691_2.png) [@Bebef](https://community.icinga.com/u/Bebef)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/check-ide-smart-no-longer-working/14338/4 "2024-12-02T07:39:14Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion. I think I’d implement SMART monitoring in a different way for that particular machine rather than using a different check just for this particular use-case. I’ll give it a look anyway, maybe I’ll have it replaced on all machines, who knows 🙂

As suggested, I have filed an issue in GitHub.