Table of contents
1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................4
1.1 What is Acronis® Drive Monitor? .............................................................................................. 4
1.2 About S.M.A.R.T. parameters .................................................................................................... 4
1.3 System requirements and supported media ............................................................................. 5
1.3.1 Minimum system requirements .................................................................................................................... 5
1.3.2 Supported operating systems ........................................................................................................................ 5
1.4 Technical support ...................................................................................................................... 5
2 Acronis Drive Monitor installation and startup .......................................................................6
2.1 Installing Acronis Drive Monitor ................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Extracting Acronis Drive Monitor .............................................................................................. 6
2.3 Running Acronis Drive Monitor ................................................................................................. 7
2.4 Removing Acronis Drive Monitor .............................................................................................. 7
3 Using Acronis Drive Monitor ..................................................................................................7
3.1 Summary page ........................................................................................................................... 7
3.2 Disks ........................................................................................................................................... 8
3.2.1 Disk overview ................................................................................................................................................... 9
3.2.2 S.M.A.R.T. parameters .................................................................................................................................. 10
3.2.3 Events ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.2.4 Health calculating .......................................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.5 Using custom script ....................................................................................................................................... 13
3.3 Backup .....................................................................................................................................17
3.4 Critical events ..........................................................................................................................19
3.4.1 Critical Events monitoring configuration ..................................................................................................... 20
3.5 Options ....................................................................................................................................21
3.5.1 Alerts .............................................................................................................................................................. 21
3.5.2 Temperature monitoring .............................................................................................................................. 23
3.5.3 Critical events monitoring ............................................................................................................................ 23
3.5.4 Disks monitoring ............................................................................................................................................ 24
3.5.5 Backup monitoring ........................................................................................................................................ 24
4 Index ................................................................................................................................... 25
