org.apache.hadoop.contrib.failmon
Class SMARTParser

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.hadoop.contrib.failmon.ShellParser
      org.apache.hadoop.contrib.failmon.SMARTParser

All Implemented Interfaces:

Monitored

public class SMARTParser
extends ShellParser

Objects of this class parse the output of smartmontools to gather information about the state of disks in the system. The smartmontools utility reads the S.M.A.R.T. attributes from the disk devices and reports them to the user. Note that since running smartctl requires superuser provileges, one should grand sudo privileges to the running user for the command smartctl (without a password). Alternatively, one can set up a cron job that periodically dumps the output of smartctl into a user-readable file. See the configuration file for details.

Constructor Summary

SMARTParser()
Constructs a SMARTParser and reads the list of disk devices to query

Method Summary

String	getInfo() Return a String with information about this class
EventRecord[]	monitor() Invokes query() to do the parsing and handles parsing errors for each one of the disks specified in the configuration.
EventRecord	query(String device) Reads and parses the output of smartctl for a specified disk and creates an appropriate EventRecord that holds the desirable information for it.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.hadoop.contrib.failmon.ShellParser

findAll, findPattern, monitor

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SMARTParser

public SMARTParser()

Constructs a SMARTParser and reads the list of disk devices to query

Method Detail

query

public EventRecord query(String device)
                  throws Exception

Reads and parses the output of smartctl for a specified disk and creates an appropriate EventRecord that holds the desirable information for it. Since the output of smartctl is different for different kinds of disks, we try to identify as many attributes as posssible for all known output formats.

Specified by:

query in class ShellParser

Parameters:

device - the disk device name to query

Returns:

the EventRecord created

Throws:

Exception

monitor

public EventRecord[] monitor()

Invokes query() to do the parsing and handles parsing errors for each one of the disks specified in the configuration.

Specified by:

monitor in interface Monitored

Specified by:

monitor in class ShellParser

Returns:

an array of EventRecords that holds one element that represents the current state of the disk devices.

getInfo

public String getInfo()

Return a String with information about this class

Returns:

A String describing this class