5-524: Smartmontools ( S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools ) is a set of utility programs ( smartctl and smartd ) to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into most modern (P)ATA , Serial ATA , SCSI / SAS and NVMe hard drives . Smartmontools displays early warning signs of hard drive problems detected by S.M.A.R.T., often giving notice of impending failure while it
10-437: A disk before copying files. Although a basic set of utility programs is usually distributed with an operating system (OS), and this first party utility software is often considered part of the operating system, users often install replacements or additional utilities. Those utilities may provide additional facilities to carry out tasks that are beyond the capabilities of the operating system. Many utilities that might affect
15-406: Is in human readable form; to aid logic trying to parse this output, JSON output is also available. This free and open-source software article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Utility program Utility software is a program specifically designed to help manage and tune system or application software.it is the security program .examples are antivirus Norton etc. It
20-404: Is still possible to back data up. From late 2010 ATA Error Recovery Control configuration has been supported by Smartmontools, allowing it to configure many desktop -and laptop -class hard drives for use in a RAID array and vice versa . Most Linux distributions provide the smartmontools package. smartctl and smartd have a command-line interface . By default the output of smartctl
25-415: Is used to support the computer infrastructure - in contrast to application software , which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. However, utilities often form part of the application systems . For example, a batch job may run user-written code to update a database and may then include a step that runs a utility to back up the database, or a job may run a utility to compress
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