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Home Server Smart 2012 is a disk health reporting add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. The add-in monitors your server’s hard disks at user-defined intervals for errors and issues, raising alerts and issuing email notifications when problems are detected.
Features:
- Continuous disk health monitoring by an always-on service.
- Monitors health of attributes and will generate alerts when a failure condition (threshold is met or exceeded) is detected.
- Monitors disk temperature and airflow temperature, and generates alerts when unacceptable temperatures are detected (airflow temperature is flagged in HSS 2012 only).
- Customizeable temperature thresholds for Warm, Hot, Overheated and Critical.
- Temperature display can be shown in Celsius (default), Fahrenheit and Kelvin.
- Proactive alerting when changes occur on certain “super critical” attributes such as bad sectors, spin retries and end-to-end errors, even if they have not actually “failed.”
- List of physical disks shows status icons for an “at-a-glance” view of disk health.
- Each attribute shows a colored icon in addition to a status message relative to its health.
- Double-click any SMART attribute to learn more about that attribute on the selected disk.
- Supports most IDE/PATA and SATA controllers that expose SMART data via standard Win32 IOCTL calls or WMI.
- Supports most USB and FireWire enclosures that expose SMART data via standard Win32 IOCTL calls.
- Allows you to clean up data from “stale” disks — disks you’ve removed from the server.
- Allows you to perform a manual polling of the disks for the latest data, rather than waiting for the service to poll them again
- Works with disk pooling software Drive Bender and StableBit DrivePool.
- Default setting not only ignores virtual disks, but hides them from the UI (since they have no SMART data anyway).
- BitLocker Drive Encryption integration – encrypt, decrypt and manage all of your volumes, whether or not those volumes have a drive letter – you can even enable the BitLocker server role from within the add-in!
- Allows you to encrypt drives that participate in drive pools.
- Allows you to hide disks that cannot be encrypted, decluttering the UI.
- Allows you to make use of an HSS helper service to unlock BitLocker-encrypted USB volumes at boot time when those disks participate in disk pools. This can help ensure the disks are ready for use when the pool is started.
- You could ignore individual problems on disks in HSS for WHS v1, but now you can un-ignore (resume) them, either on an individual basis or for all problems on all disks.
- You can now ignore entire disks (and resume them as well) – useful for hiding flash drives and media card readers, as well as disks that you know are showing incorrect information (rare, but it’s been reported).
- Improved the ability to stop, start and restart the HSS service.
- Shut down or reboot your server from within the add-in.
- Send alerts via email.
- Bug Report Helper – runs a small self-test to detect installation problems and provide details to help in troubleshooting.
- Don’t use, and don’t plan to use BitLocker? You can hide the BitLocker tab completely.
Developer: DojoNorth Software
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Download: Home Server SMART 2012
Release History
v2.2.1.21 (21st January 2012)
- Beta release
