This role automatically configures and installs a relatively recent (at least v7) version of smartmontools.

While smartmontools packages are available in most repositories, they're often outdated. Software such as Scrutiny relies on having at least smartmontools v7 installed. This role aims to achieve that while being available for all platforms someone could reasonably want to run on.

Currently this includes:

• CentOS 7 (should also work with RHEL)
• Debian 10, Debian 11
• Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04

Before this role runs, you need to make sure the following dependencies are installed:

See this role's molecule/default/converge.yml playbook for an example that works across many different OSes.

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

smartmontools_install_from_source: true
smartmontools_src_location: "/usr/local/src/smartmontools"

By default, this role will opt to install from backports rather than building from source if a recent smartmontools is available from backports. You can change this behaviour by changing setting smartmontools_install_from_backports to false. NOTE: This default may change in the future.

None.

- name: Install smartmontools
  hosts: all
  become: true

  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.repo-epel
      when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
    - geerlingguy.git
    - zorlin.smartmontools

MIT

This role was created in 2020 by Benjamin Arntzen.

This role uses examples and code from geerlingguy.awx which was written by Jeff Geerling.