[FEAT] Allow option to pass device type so devices not found in scan can be included #45
Description
First, I'd like to say that Scrutiny is such a great idea. Thank for you for creating this!!
Feature Request
It would be awesome if there was a way to pass the device type to Scrutiny so that it can collect details on drives that the smartctl utility can't identify on it's own (due to USB bridge identification limits, etc).
Context
I deployed this in Docker to a little home server I run, and mapped in 3 devices in the config file as such:
- device=/dev/sda
- device=/dev/sdb
- device=/dev/sdc
When I opened the Scrutiny UI after doing a scan, only the first two internal drives were visible. The last (/dev/sdc) is an external USB drive. I poked around and saw that it can be problematic for smartctl to get the details for external drives. However, if I could find and pass the correct device type for the USB bridge, it might work.
I was able to identify the correct value to pass for my particular drive, which allowed the retrieval of SMART data from my external drive from terminal. If I could provide configuration detail that the device is of type sat, hopefully I'll be able to monitor that external drive as well with Scrutiny. Below are the outputs of various commands I ran as I tested my theory.
sudo smartctl --scan
/dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sda, SCSI device
/dev/sdb -d scsi # /dev/sdb, SCSI device
sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-42-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
/dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x04e8:0x6123 (0x202)]
Please specify device type with the -d option.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc -d sat
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-42-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model: ST2000DM001-1E6164
Serial Number: W1E86G1H
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 073eb6239
Firmware Version: SC48
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Sep 27 19:10:19 2020 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled