WHS SMART beta with USB Drive Support for Windows Home Server

I can also get detailed data about each of the warnings.

You can adjust many settings from within the SMART Add-In interface in the  Settings area from within your WHS Console.

Although the email function is not available, my Remote Notification by Alex Kuretz sends the warnings.

You can double click on a drive and it will give you updated information on any errors it detects.

The coolest new feature is the support for USB drives. I finally get to see all of the data from my attached backup drives. Seriously cool Dojo!

Thank you Dojo!

Timothy Daleo

Release Notes

http://www.dojonorthsoftware.net/Freebies/HomeServerSMARTBeta.aspx

VERSION 1.6.10.28 *BETA* (2/26/2011)
New Features:
– Home Server SMART now runs as a Windows Service.
Disks are monitored automatically every 3 minutes
and health alerts are raised in WHS. Polling
can be done as little as once per minute up to
once every two hours.
– Added an icon to physical disk list which gives a
quick indication of a disk’s health.
– Added the ability to ignore certain problems (i.e.
bad sectors); problems that are ignored don’t
generate health alerts unless the number of that
problem goes higher or the threshold is exceeded.
– Added the ability to delete “stale” (no longer
installed) disks from the Registry.
– Added the ability to reset the user-configurable
settings, ignored problems or everything. Resetting
everything deletes all information about all disks
and starts over fresh.
– Added the ability to stop and start the service.
– Added a Settings button to pull up Home Server
SMART settings directly.
– Added Windows event logging.

Changes:
– Changed icons on buttons in main window.
– SMART data in UI is read directly from the Registry.
This results in much faster application loading and
display.
– Refresh button triggers a manual polling of data
which updates the Registry data for display.
– “Please wait” message appears during refresh.

Bug Fixes:
– Fixed problem with Silicon Image SiI controllers
which don’t expose SMART threshold data via
standard COM; WMI is retained to get this data.