How do I find and read the syslog and use the smartctl utility

[TonyToews]

I've looked at the FreeNAS wiki and searched through the forums but don't see relevant postings. Yes, I'm a N00b when it comes to *nix and BSD.

I just received an email stating the smartd daemon found a device had reached a critical temp. Now I've set it quite low at 40 C just to see what happens so I'm glad I got the message. But then it stated.
"For details see host's SYSLOG."
Ok, so how do I read the host's syslog?

Then the email states:
"You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation."
How? All I can see on the web interface is the settings. I don't know of any way to view the results "for further investigation".

 

[William Grzybowski]

You need SSH access, logs are in /var/log, smartctl is a command line program

 

[nello]

You need SSH access, logs are in /var/log, smartctl is a command line program

I see several files in /var/log

Which is the log file for the SMART errors?

 

[Ericloewe]

SMART?

use smartctl -a /dev/adawhatever

 

[nello]

SMART?

use smartctl -a /dev/adawhatever

When I tried this, I had a permission error.

For others reading this thread ...

Use:

sudo smartctl -a /dev/<deviceName>

In my case, for example:

sudo smartctl -a /dev/ada3