ceph mgr module enable devicehealth
-(It is enabled by default.)
+(The module is enabled by default.)
+
+To turn on automatic device health monitoring, including regular (daily)
+scraping of device health metrics like SMART::
+
+ ceph device monitoring on
+
+To disable monitoring,::
+
+ ceph device monitoring off
Scraping
--------
ceph device scrape-daemon-health-metrics <who>
+The stored health metrics for a device can be retrieved (optionally
+for a specific timestamp) with::
+
+ ceph device show-health-metrics <devid> [sample-timestamp]
Health monitoring
-----------------
The ``mgr/devicehealth/mark_out_threshold`` controls how soon an
expected device failure must be before we automatically mark an osd
"out".
+
+The stored life expectancy of all devices can be checked, and any
+appropriate health alerts generated, with::
+
+ ceph device check-health