Crucial Paradigm Australia Official Blog
May 18, 2010
If you have tried installing any software on XenServer you will know that it is not an easy process. This article shows how you can install smartctl on a XenServer server. Smartctl is a great utility to monitor drives and if they have had any errors.
To install run the following:
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/smartmontools-5.37-7.fc8.i386.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/mailx-8.1.1-46.fc7.i386.rpm
rpm -hiv smartmontools-5.37-7.fc8.i386.rpm mailx-8.1.1-46.fc7.i386.rpm
You now have smartctl installed on XenServer!
Filed under: Uncategorized by — Aaron Weller @ 12:37 pm
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