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- Page 1 Acronis® Drive Monitor User's Guide...
- Page 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acronis Compute with Confidence", “Acronis Startup Recovery Manager”, “Acronis Active Restore” and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of contents Introduction ..........................4 What is Acronis® Drive Monitor? ....................4 About S.M.A.R.T. parameters ....................4 System requirements and supported media ................5 1.3.1 Minimum system requirements ........................5 1.3.2 Supported operating systems ........................5 Technical support ........................5 Acronis Drive Monitor installation and startup ...............6... -
Page 4: Introduction
1.1 What is Acronis® Drive Monitor? Acronis Drive Monitor is a free tool available for public download, created to increase customer awareness about the health of their disk drives and to encourage them to back up their data in order to survive a disk failure. -
Page 5: System Requirements And Supported Media
Minimum system requirements The hardware requirements of Acronis Drive Monitor correspond to the minimum requirements for the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Acronis Drive Monitor. In addition Acronis Drive Monitor requires the following hardware: ... -
Page 6: Acronis Drive Monitor Installation And Startup
To make sure there is enough of free space for installing Acronis Drive Monitor, click Disk usage... button, which opens a window with a list of hard drives and their disk space usage information. -
Page 7: Running Acronis Drive Monitor
Click Extract. 2.3 Running Acronis Drive Monitor You can run Acronis Drive Monitor in Windows by selecting Start → Programs → Acronis → Acronis Drive Monitor → Acronis Drive Monitor or by clicking on the appropriate shortcut on the desktop. -
Page 8: Disks
The Backup section informs you whether your data is protected with recently created backup archives. For the proper functioning you need a newer Acronis backup software to be installed on your computer. In case no backup software is detected, you will be invited to Acronis web site. -
Page 9: Disk Overview
By default the first hard disk is selected and its details are displayed in the table. To view other disks' information, select it in the table. Running Acronis Drive Monitor on a virtual machine. While using Acronis Drive Monitor on a virtual machine, disks monitoring should be disabled due to the following reasons: ... -
Page 10: Parameters
Disk temperature The hard disk temperature in displayed in Centigrade or Fahrenheit depending on your settings. 3.2.2 S.M.A.R.T. parameters This tab contains a table with S.M.A.R.T. parameters, available for our hard drive (this list depends on the hardware manufacturer). Each line shows the parameter name, its current value, threshold (the lowest limit set by the manufacturer) and the common status. -
Page 11: Events
Initially a hard disk has 100% health condition. All S.M.A.R.T. parameters considered by Acronis Drive Monitor as critical for a hard drive (if they are available for monitoring, it depends on the manufacturer), decrease the health of your disk. Such attributes have a predefined weight and a maximum limit value (see a Table 1 below). - Page 12 Disk health (%) = Π (100% - (min(limit, attribute_value*Weight))) where: 100% - an initial health of a disk; Π - the product of minimums from (limit, attribute_value*Weight) - calculated for each critical S.M.A.R.T. parameter; Weight - a weight of each critical S.M.A.R.T. parameter (see a Table 1 below); limit - a limit of each critical S.M.A.R.T.
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Page 13: Using Custom Script
Attribute ID S.M.A.R.T. attribute Raw Read Error Rate Throughput Performance Spin Up Time Start/Stop Count Seek Error Rate Seek Time Performance Power-On Time Count Drive Power Cycle Count G-sense Error Rate Power off Retract Cycle Load/Unload Cycle Count Disk Temperature Ultra ATA CRC Error Count Load/Unload Retry Count What else may decrease a disk's health? - Page 14 Below is a sample of a custom script applicable for Intel(R) RAID controllers using Intel(R) CmdTool2 v5.00.11: @echo off setlocal echo Sample ADM custom script for Intel(R) RAID controllers using Intel(R) CmdTool2 v5.00.11 echo Copyright (c)Acronis, 2000-2010 All rights reserved echo. echo. echo Controller information echo.
- Page 15 echo Critical disks: %%d set /a critical_disks=%%d if %%a==Failed ( if %%b==Disks ( echo Failed disks: %%d set /a failed_disks=%%d echo. echo Physical devices information echo. set error_count=0 ::CmdTool2 -PDList -aALL for /f "tokens=1-4" %%a in ('CmdTool2 -PDList -aALL ^| findstr "Error Adapter Slot"') do ( if %%a==Adapter ( echo %%a %%b echo ***...
- Page 16 if %%a==Media ( set /a error_count+=%%d echo Media error count: %%d if %%a==Other ( set /a error_count+=%%d echo Other error count: %%d echo. echo *** echo. set /a ret_code_ok=0 set /a ret_code_warning=1 set /a ret_code_critical=2 set ret_code=%ret_code_ok% if %failed_disks% gtr 0 ( echo Alert! Failed disks found! set /a ret_code=%ret_code_critical% if %critical_disks% gtr 0 (...
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Page 17: Backup
Acronis Drive Monitor supports integration with Acronis products, such as Acronis True Image Home Update 2 or higher and Acronis Backup & Recovery Update 2 or higher, and monitors the backup archives availability for all disks/partitions on your computer. You can launch backup tasks directly from Acronis Drive Monitor interface. - Page 18 Also you may schedule running backup tasks from Acronis in case Acronis Drive Monitor reports about a potential problem with one of the hard disks. To do this, select Run the task upon HDD alarm check box when creating a backup task using the Acronis software, installed on your computer.
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Page 19: Critical Events
You may disable notifications about unavailable backups, thus they will not be displayed on the Summary page. 3.4 Critical events Acronis Drive Monitor informs you in case of a dangerous event and allows viewing its working logs. Critical events page displays only potentially dangerous events for data safety caused by changes of critical parameters. -
Page 20: Critical Events Monitoring Configuration
In the bottom of the page there is a link to an Acronis Knowledge Base web site. To provide you the better and early support, our team needs the complete system information. -
Page 21: Options
3.5.1 Alerts When configured, Acronis Drive Monitor will notify you when problems are detected. Alerts may be delivered via e-mail. To provide an e-mail addresses or change details, click Change settings... link (see E-mail parameters (p. 22) section for details). -
Page 22: E-Mail Parameters
You may receive regular disk status reports with specified periodicity (see Regular reports schedule (p. 23) section for details). Acronis Drive Monitor allows running monitoring process in the background. With the corresponding check box in the bottom of the page selected, scheduled tasks will continue running after you exit the program, e.g. -
Page 23: Temperature Monitoring
You can specify a schedule for regular disk status reports. Such report contains all information on your disks, including a monitoring mode, health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. parameters degradation, if any, and detected alerts. Acronis Drive Monitor also will inform you about the hard drive failure, that may occur soon. -
Page 24: Disks Monitoring
To specify the events, which you want to be informed about, you can change the monitoring configuration - see Critical Events monitoring configuration (p. 20) article. Clicking Reset to the original settings link will reset exclude filters, that were specified in winlog_filter.xml (all user's changes will be lost;... -
Page 25: Index
Using Acronis Drive Monitor • 7 Using custom script • 7, 13, 24 Disk overview • 9 Disks • 8 What is Acronis® Drive Monitor? • 4 Disks monitoring • 13, 21, 24 E-mail parameters • 21, 22 Events • 11 Extracting Acronis Drive Monitor •...
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