#!/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/perl # cpanel - scripts/smartcheck Copyright 2022 cPanel, L.L.C. # All rights reserved. # copyright@cpanel.net http://cpanel.net # This code is subject to the cPanel license. Unauthorized copying is prohibited package scripts::smartcheck; use strict; use warnings; use Cpanel::DataStore (); use Getopt::Param (); use Cpanel::StringFunc::Trim (); use Cpanel::SafeRun::Dynamic (); our $bin = '/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/smartctl'; our $last_sent = '/var/cpanel/last_smartcheck_msg_alert'; our $fstab_file = '/etc/fstab'; our $cust_d_file = '/var/cpanel/smartcheck_custom_dash_d.yaml'; our $disable_file = '/var/cpanel/disablesmartcheck'; our $smart_enabled_rgx_21 = 'Drive supports S.M.A.R.T. and is enabled'; our $smart_enabled_rgx_5x = '.*SMART.*Enabled|Available.*has.*SMART'; our $smart_enabled_rgx_6x = '.*SMART.*Enabled|Available.*has.*SMART'; our $smart_enabled_rgx_default = '.*SMART.*Enabled|Available.*has.*SMART'; sub get_smartctl { my %smart = ( 'url' => 'http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/', 'version_cmd' => '-V', 'version_rgx' => '^smartctl\s*(?:version)?\s*', # 2.1 is retained for historical reasons and may be removed without notice '2.1' => { 'smart_enabled_cmd' => '-i', 'smart_enabled_rgx' => $smart_enabled_rgx_21, 'errors_only' => '-l', 'ok_drive_rgx' => [qw(/sd /hd)], }, # 5.37 is the last version of smartmontools directly distributed with cP/WHM '5.37' => { 'smart_enabled_cmd' => '-i', 'smart_enabled_rgx' => $smart_enabled_rgx_5x, 'errors_only' => '-q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error', 'ok_drive_rgx' => [qw(/sd /hd)], }, # 5.42 is the latest version of smartmontools provided via yum for CentOS 5 '5.42' => { 'smart_enabled_cmd' => '-i', 'smart_enabled_rgx' => $smart_enabled_rgx_5x, 'errors_only' => '-q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error', 'ok_drive_rgx' => [qw(/sd /hd)], }, # 5.43 is the latest version of smartmontools provided via yum for CentOS 6 '5.43' => { 'smart_enabled_cmd' => '-i', 'smart_enabled_rgx' => $smart_enabled_rgx_5x, 'errors_only' => '-q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error', 'ok_drive_rgx' => [qw(/sd /hd)], }, # 6.2 is the latest version of smartmontools provided via yum for CentOS 7 '6.2' => { 'smart_enabled_cmd' => '-i', 'smart_enabled_rgx' => $smart_enabled_rgx_6x, 'errors_only' => '-q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error', 'ok_drive_rgx' => [qw(/sd /hd)], }, # default is suitable for all known versions of 5.x and 6.x 'default' => { 'smart_enabled_cmd' => '-i', 'smart_enabled_rgx' => $smart_enabled_rgx_default, 'errors_only' => '-q errorsonly -H -l selftest -l error', 'ok_drive_rgx' => [qw(/sd /hd)], }, ); return \%smart; } sub _get_enabled_string { my ( $smart, $vrs, $dsk ) = @_; my $disk_enabled = ''; Cpanel::SafeRun::Dynamic::livesaferun( 'prog' => [ $bin, split( /\s+/, $smart->{$vrs}->{'smart_enabled_cmd'} ), $dsk ], 'formatter' => sub { my ($line) = @_; $disk_enabled .= $line; return ''; }, ); return $disk_enabled; } sub is_smart_enabled { my ( $smart, $vrs, $dsk ) = @_; my $disk_enabled = _get_enabled_string( $smart, $vrs, $dsk ); return ( $disk_enabled =~ m/$smart->{$vrs}->{'smart_enabled_rgx'}/i ) ? 1 : undef; } sub _extract_version { my ( $line, $quit_saferun_loop_sr ) = @_; my $vrs; my $smart = get_smartctl(); # handle if $line is undef if ($line) { if ( $line =~ m/^$smart->{'version_rgx'}\s*(\d+\.\d+)/ ) { $vrs = $1; ${$quit_saferun_loop_sr} = 1; } } # if the version can't be determined or is not found in the smartctl hash, use 'default' $vrs = 'default' if ( !$vrs || !exists $smart->{$vrs} ); return $vrs; } sub get_smart_version { my $smart = shift; my ( $vrs, $output ); Cpanel::SafeRun::Dynamic::livesaferun( 'prog' => [ $bin, split( /\s+/, $smart->{'version_cmd'} ) ], 'formatter' => sub { my ($line) = @_; $output .= $line; return ''; }, ); $vrs = _extract_version($output); return $vrs; } sub run { my %smart = %{ get_smartctl() }; my $custom_d = Cpanel::DataStore::fetch_ref($cust_d_file); my $param = Getopt::Param->new( { 'help_coderef' => sub { print <<"SMARTCHECK_HELP"; $0 - check the status of your harddrive(s) with smartctl. --help this screen --quiet bare minimum output --noemail output to screen only, do not send email TROUBLESHOOTING If you have a hard drive that keeps getting this output via $0: "Checking /dev/sda....S.M.A.R.T does not appear to be enabled for this device." You may confirm directly if your hard drive supports SMART using the following command: # smartctl -i /dev/YOURHDD After this, if you are certain it has SMART support enabled, then you can tell $0 to specify a given drive type to smartctl using a simple YAML file: $cust_d_file (described in detail in the following section) If after verifying using smartctl directly that your drive is supported and you have added a custom configuration, it is possible that $0 is simply not properly detecting that your drive is supported. In this case, please file a bug report. CONFIGURATION FILE You may add custom configurations, per drive, to $cust_d_file" This file may contain simple key/value values where the key is the drive and the value is the value of that drive's type. For example to tell smartctl that /dev/sda and /dev/sdb is an "ata" we create this YAML file: --- /dev/sda: ata /dev/sdb: ata Then the next time it's run we'll see this output instead: Checking /dev/sda.... Adding custom '-d ata' flag for /dev/sda from $cust_d_file Ok For more information on -d options available for supporting drives behind RAID controllers, see: http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_RAID-Controllers While YAML files are plain text, its best to initialize the configuration file are shown below. To write the initial entry into $cust_d_file: perl -MYAML::Syck=DumpFile -e 'DumpFile("$cust_d_file", {"/dev/sda"=>"ata"});' To dump the current has to the screen: perl -MYAML::Syck=LoadFile -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper(LoadFile("$cust_d_file"));' Note: Subsequent entries should be handed added since the above two commands overrite any existing file. $cust_d_file may also be used to add additional drives that do not have entrieds directly in $fstab_file. SMARTCHECK_HELP exit; }, } ); require Digest::SHA; my %drive_lookup; my $msg = ''; my $didhowdy = 0; my $quiet = $param->get_param('quiet') ? 1 : 0; my $nomail = $param->get_param('nomail') ? 1 : 0; my $debug = 0; FINDSMARTCTL: if ( !-l $bin ) { for my $smartctl (qw(/usr/sbin/smartctl /usr/local/sbin/smartctl)) { if ( -e $smartctl ) { #if an existing exists and we still have the old, replace it with a link if ( -e $bin ) { unlink $bin or die "Could not remove old cPanel smartctl: $!"; } system 'ln', '-s', $smartctl, $bin; last; } } } my $link = readlink($bin) || 'smartctl'; DONTRUNIF: { if ( !-e $bin ) { # or -l or -x instead ??? exit; } if ( -e $disable_file ) { exit; } } my $vrs = get_smart_version( \%smart ); $smart{'BINVER'} = ( $vrs ne 'default' ) ? $vrs : 'unknown'; # unsupported SCSI was here my @mounts; FINDDISKS: { Cpanel::SafeRun::Dynamic::livesaferun( 'prog' => ['mount'], 'formatter' => sub { my ($line) = @_; push @mounts, $line; return ''; }, ); open my $fstab,, '<', $fstab_file or die "Could not open $fstab_file: $!"; my @fstab_lines = <$fstab>; close $fstab; for my $mount_lines ( @mounts, @fstab_lines ) { next if $mount_lines =~ m{ (?:cdrom | floppy | noauto) }xms; my ($drive) = $mount_lines =~ /^(\/\S+)/; if ($drive) { $drive =~ s{\d+$}{}g; $drive_lookup{$drive} = 1; } } # add additional possible entries from custom config for my $dsk ( keys %$custom_d ) { $drive_lookup{$dsk} = 1; } } CHECKDISKS: { for my $dsk ( sort keys %drive_lookup ) { next if !grep { $dsk =~ m/\Q$_\E/ } @{ $smart{$vrs}->{'ok_drive_rgx'} }; if ( !$didhowdy ) { print qq{Using smartcheck version profile "$vrs" for smartctl ($smart{'BINVER'})\n} if !$quiet; $didhowdy++; } print "Checking $dsk...." unless $quiet; if ( exists $custom_d->{$dsk} && $custom_d->{$dsk} =~ m{^\S+$} ) { print "\n\tAdding custom '-d $custom_d->{$dsk}' flag for $dsk from $cust_d_file\n" if !$quiet; $smart{$vrs}->{'smart_enabled_cmd'} = "-d $custom_d->{$dsk} $smart{$vrs}->{'smart_enabled_cmd'}"; } if ( is_smart_enabled( \%smart, $vrs, $dsk ) ) { my $error = ''; Cpanel::SafeRun::Dynamic::livesaferun( 'prog' => [ $bin, split( /\s+/, $smart{$vrs}->{'errors_only'} ), $dsk ], 'formatter' => sub { my ($line) = @_; $error .= $line; return ''; }, ); $error = Cpanel::StringFunc::Trim::ws_trim($error); if ($error) { $msg .= <<"MSG_END"; S.M.A.R.T Errors on $dsk From Command: $link $smart{$vrs}->{'errors_only'} $dsk $error ----END $dsk-- MSG_END print "\nErrors:\n $error\n\n" if !$quiet; } else { print "Ok\n" if !$quiet; } } else { print "S.M.A.R.T does not appear to be enabled for this device.\n" if !$quiet; } } } if ( $msg && -e $last_sent ) { $msg = '' if Digest::SHA->new(512)->addfile($last_sent)->hexdigest eq Digest::SHA::sha512_hex($msg); } ALERT_FAILINGDISKS: { if ( $msg ne '' ) { if ( open my $last_fh, '>', $last_sent ) { print {$last_fh} $msg; close $last_fh; } else { warn "Could not open $last_sent for writing: $!"; } my $subject = '[cPanel smartcheck] Possible Hard Drive Failure Soon'; my $smsg = <<"SMART_END"; IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email! !!!! READ IT THOUROUGHLY !! Your system's smartctl utility has detected some errors. (see the "---- smartctl report --" section below for details). You should investigate those errors according to `man smartctl` and documentation at $smart{'url'} including their mailing list. You can disable this check by doing: `touch /var/cpanel/disablesmartcheck` and reenable it at anytime by removing that file. If you do find issues you should consider using smartd to monitor your drives instead of/along with this script. This email was generated by the cPanel smartcheck script and is reporting errors from your S.M.A.R.T enabled drives with the given commands below. It is up to you to investigate further and take appropriate steps: !!!! Do not submit tickets or bug reports if you get this email. Use the avenues outlined in this email to deal with your system's S.M.A.R.T setup. !! To begin your troubleshooting you may want to run `/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/smartcheck --nomail` as root via SSH. ---- smartctl report -- $msg SMART_END if ( !$nomail ) { require Cpanel::Notify; Cpanel::Notify::notification_class( 'class' => 'Check::Smart', 'application' => 'Check::Smart', 'constructor_args' => [ 'origin' => 'smartcheck', 'attach_files' => [ { name => 'SMART-log.txt', content => \$msg } ], ] ); } if ($debug) { print "This was emailed unless you used --nomail:\n" . "Subject: $subject\n\n$smsg"; } } } return; } run() if !caller(); 1; __END__ =head1 NAME /scripts/smartcheck =head1 USAGE /scripts/smartcheck [--help] | [--quiet --noemail] =head1 REQUIRED ARGUMENTS None =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 =item -- help List the help section, then exit immediately. =item --quiet Do not output the normal dialog to STDOUT. =item --noemail Do not send an email alert if a disk is found to be failing. =back =head1 DESCRIPTION This utility is a wrapper around smartmontool's smartctl tool. It is run regularly as part of C</scripts/maintenance>. It may be run independently from the commandline or as part of a more frequently occurring crontab entry. If hard drives that are SMART enabled show signs of impending failure, this utility will generate the necessary warnings necessary to alert the admin of this server. =head1 DIAGNOSTICS None =head1 CONFIGURATION C</var/cpanel/smartcheck_custom_dash_d.yaml> may be used for two purposes. First, it may be used to define the type (passed to smartctl's -d flag) for a specific drive if smartctl is unable to determine this without help. Secondly, the configuration file may be used to define SMART enabled hard drives that are not directly listed in the system's C</etc/fstab> file. For more information on -d options available for supporting drives behind RAID controllers, please visit: L<http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_RAID-Controllers> =head1 EXIT STATUS Exit status is 0 (success) unless an unexpected error occurs, in which case it will die (255). =head1 DEPENDENCIES This utility requires that a modern version of smartmontools be installed. It has been tested to work with versions 5.x and 6.x, although there is legacy support for version 2.1. =head1 INCOMPATIBILITIES None =head1 SEE ALSO The help section displayed using the C<--help> option is very handy. =head1 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS SMART checks are only made on SMART enabled hard drives that have device names beginning with "hd" and "sd". =head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2022 cPanel, L.L.C.

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A revolution in video storytelling

Creating entirely new & cost-effective production methods

From the world leaders in video production training and the creators of Character Driven Storytelling™

*and every other business that uses video

WHAT WE DO

Over the past 35 years, we have designed, built or restructured some of the most powerful news and journalism companies in the world.

We replace the traditional TV news ‘crew’ with one highly trained journalist, working alone with nothing but an iPhone.

No more TV news ‘crews’, no editors and no field producers.

This is television news done the way newspaper journalism is done – one reporter with their electronic pad and pencil.

In doing this, we can cut the cost of production by as much as 75% while increasing ratings and audience engagement.

In the place of conventional TV news ‘packages’ – ie, reporter stand up, interview, b-roll, man on the street, we marry great journalism with Netflix and Hollywood storytelling.

It’s a combination that works.

We have taken most of our clients to #1 in their respective markets.

And it’s not just for news. Any company, any profit, any NGO and anyone else who is online needs to tell their story in compelling yet cost-effective video. We can teach you to do that. Either in person or virtually.

EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE CAN TEACH YOUR STAFF TO PRODUCE

ITAY HOD

Itay Hod, MMJ with KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2018.

Because he works alone, with only an iPhone, he was able to embed himself with a homeless family.

Here’s the story he produced in a one-day turn.

KIET DO

Kiet Do, an MMJ with KPIX/CBS in San Francisco, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2021.

Here is a story he produced, all on his own, with only an iPhone and in a one-day turn.

TAYLOR SCHAUB

Taylor Schaub, an MMJ with Spectrum News 1 in LA, took the 5-Day Intensive Video Storytelling Bootcamp in 2023.

Here is a story he turned in only one day, using only an iPhone. It was the first video story he ever did and it was nominated for an Emmy.

THE BOOTCAMP

How do we convert stations and whole networks to working in this way?

Since 1988, we have run intensive 5-Day Video Storytelling Bootcamps

We have done these all over the world.

These are hands-on bootcamps, and participants learn an entirely new way of creating TV news stories.

-We shoot at a 3:1 ratio or lower, so turnaround times are fast.

-We go directly from camera to timelilne and edit – no written scripts. We work in the medium of pictures and sound.

-We are entirely character-driven.

-We are driven by pictures and real events.

-We are focused almost entirely on ’the viewer experience’.

Since 1988, more than 70,000 journalists around the world have taken our bootcamps, either in person on virtualy.

Case Studies

CBS News

New York Times Television

The BBC

Spectrum News

The United Nations

The Newark Star-Ledger

Mcgraw Hill

Voice of America

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Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

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