Linux Tip: (commands over ssh)

I have a freenas box and I like to periodically check the smart status on my drives to make sure everything’s OK. I just figured out a really sweet way to do it without lifting a finger.

You can run commands though SSH by using ' around the commands.

For example to get the smart status on one of my drives I would go like this.

This will output the results of the command on my terminal.

I can take this a step further by writing the results to a file like this

This will output the results to a txt file in my tmp directory.

I then use this command in conky to display the word PASSED or FAILED on my desktop.

I plan to actually pull reallocated sectors and drive temps from this but with the output in the tmp directory you can take whatever you want.

I can see this coming in handy for all kinds of system monitoring. I never knew you could use SSH to run commands without actually logging in. You can basiclly have a separate conky instance for multiple systems on your workstations desktop.

I'm sorry but Linux rocks, Try doing this in Windows.