VPS- update fails because of missing smartmontools, why?

Wabun

• July 22, 2015 05:38

I am running a VPS, have a VPS cPanel license, why the heck do I need smartmontools? cPanel remove this requirement for a VPS, the underlying hardware is having raid controllers. They run on on a virtual disk, what the heck you want to scan for on a virtual disk? Please remove that requirement. [2015-07-22 11:28:43 +0100] E Sysup: Needed system RPMs were not installed: smartmontools [2015-07-22 11:28:43 +0100] ***** FATAL: Cannot proceed. Needed system RPMs were not installed. [2015-07-22 11:28:43 +0100] The Administrator will be notified to review this output when this script completes => Log closed Wed Jul 22 11:28:43 2015 From the smartmontools website: Do smartctl and smartd run on a virtual machine guest OS? Yes and no. Smartctl and smartd run on a virtual machine guest OS without problems. But this isn't very useful because the virtual disks do not support SMART. If a guest OS disk is configured as a raw disk, this only means that its sectors are mapped transparently to the underlying physical disk. This does not imply the ATA or SCSI pass-through access required to access the SMART info of the physical disk. Even the disk's identity is typically not exposed to the guest OS.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 22, 2015 18:02

  Hello :) The following change was implemented in cPanel version 11.50.0.4: Implemented case 170637: Removing smartmontools provided tar.gz, relying on yum RPMs to deliver. Essentially, it was always installed through cPanel in the past, and a change was made so that it was installed by your system package manager (YUM). You can still disable SMART errors via:
  touch /var/cpanel/disablesmartcheck
  Thank you.

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  Wabun

  • July 22, 2015 19:08

  Hello :) The following change was implemented in cPanel version 11.50.0.4: Implemented case 170637: Removing smartmontools provided tar.gz, relying on yum RPMs to deliver. Essentially, it was always installed through cPanel in the past, and a change was made so that it was installed by your system package manager (YUM). You can still disable SMART errors via:
  touch /var/cpanel/disablesmartcheck
  Thank you.

  
  Thank you very much, I will run that script. It might be a good idea to run on a Dedicated server, but not on VPS's ;-)

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 23, 2015 18:34

  Hello :) You are very welcome. Let us know if you have any additional questions.

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