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How to Monitor Linux Server Hardware Health with Smartctl and IPMI
In episode 63 of Linux Server Admin with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into proactive hardware monitoring for Linux servers using smartctl for disk health and IPMI for chassis sensors. They walk through a real scenario where a missing drive was caught by a scheduled smartctl scan before data loss, and how to set up ipmitool to monitor temperature and fan speed on Dell PowerEdge servers. Lucas explains how to parse SMART attributes like Reallocated_Sector_Ct and how IPMI can alert on voltage anomalies. Luna shares a story about a failing fan that was detected only by IPMI polling. The episode…
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