KVM Host Faulty Disk

Eventually a harddrive will fail. Having installed and configured smartmontools an email like the following will show up in your inbox.

From root@kvm02.kallenberg.dk Wed Oct 18 23:14:11 2017
Subject: SMART error (SelfTest) detected on host: kvm02
To: <root@kvm02.kallenberg.dk>
X-Mailer: mail (GNU Mailutils 3.1.1)

This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on:

   host name:  kvm02
   DNS domain: kallenberg.dk

The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:

Device: /dev/sdd, Self-Test Log error count increased from 0 to 1

Device info:
ST2000DM001-1CH164, S/N:Z2F0RD5S, WWN:5-000c50-050214cd9, FW:CC26, 2.00 TB

For details see host's SYSLOG.

You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
Another message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.