Send warning mails via PowerShell script under MS-Windows

[Gabriele Pohl]

A smartmontools user wrote:

We use smartmontools on MS Windows computers (and of course on our Linux boxes)
because they are small, they support multi platform usage and they work just great.

The only point that we did not like too much was the use of an external
program to send email warnings (blat on Windows). That's why I changed
the file smard_warning.cmd and wrote a PowerShell script to send the warning emails.
Now, if you are interested, I would like to share my scripts with the
smartmontools dev team. If you like it - feel free to integrate it.

[Christian Franke]

Thanks for your contribution. Using PowerShell as an alternative to blat makes plenty of sense. This wasn't an option in the early days (2004) when email support was added to the Windows port of smartd.

Unfortunately the attached scripts are not backward compatible and break existing functionality (e.g. -m console, -m <nomailer> -M /path/to/script). Therefore these scripts cannot replace the current smartd_warning.cmd​.

[Christian Franke]

Proposed new version of smartd_warning.cmd. Runs smartd_mailer.ps1 if configured.

[Christian Franke]

PowerShell script which sends mail via Send-MailMessage.

[Christian Franke]

Sample confugration file for smartd_mailer.ps1.

[Christian Franke]

If possible, please test the above scripts:

• Replace %PROGRAMFILES%/smartmontools/bin/smartd_warning.cmd with smartd_warning.2.cmd​.
• Copy smartd_mailer.ps1​ and smartd_mailer.conf.ps1​ to %PROGRAMFILES%/smartmontools/bin.
• Edit %PROGRAMFILES%/smartmontools/bin/smartd_mailer.conf.ps1.
• Run set SMARTD_ADDRESS=ADDRESS & smartd_warning.cmd --dryrun to see the parameters of the Send-MailMessage command that would be executed.
• Run smartd service with -m ADDRESS -M test (and without -M exec ...) directive.

If smartd_mailer.conf.ps1 is not present, blat.exe is be used instead.

[Christian Franke]

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