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Phase 09 — A /disks page for physical disk health (smartctl)

Source: TODO.md L8 — "a truly physical disk monitoring page": "Add a 'disks' tab dedicated to smartctl and per-disk metrics. Note: not per-partition, but truly a physical disk monitoring page that collects data about all my physical disks across my fleet (should only be deskwork and driveripper right now)." Story: n/a Context: agent/host_agent.py (physical whole disks via /sys/block, ~L400 — already partition-free; stdlib-only, ProtectSystem=strict), src/dashboards/config.py (env only, sources default to unset), src/dashboards/poller.py (one task per source, stale/last-good, events under the dashboard name), src/dashboards/store.py (WAL, rollups raw→1m→1h, retention — rule 9), src/dashboards/api.py (GETs, 404-when-unconfigured without dialling), the three existing dashboards + / overview (a new tab joins the nav and the overview's "which of the three" table)

Objective

A fourth dashboard: /disks — one card per physical disk (the agent's whole- /sys/block enumeration, never partitions), each carrying smartctl health: overall health, temperature, power-on hours, and the sector/wear alarms. Its own disks source and poller task at a slow 5-minute cadence (SMART is not a per-second signal), its own API (/api/disks/snapshot, /api/disks/history), rollups and retention, and a page that reads n/a for what smartctl cannot see — never red for a missing binary.

  • ASSUMPTION (phase, confirmed): the agent reads SMART directly (smartctl as the agent user, e.g. disk group) — no sudo — and DISKS_INTERVAL_SECONDS defaults to 300 s. smartctl absent or a disk unreadable → that disk's smart is null with an error entry; the page says "smartctl not available" dimmed (invariants 3/4: unconfigured is not broken; a dead source must not blink another).

Dependencies

  • 08_events_paging_and_copy (todo) — sequence only: it settles app.js/dash.css (the pager + copy audit) that the new page builds on; no hard code dependency.

Tasks

  1. 01_agent_smartctl_collection.md — host_agent.py gains a smartctl pass over its existing whole-disk list (per-device smartctl -i -A -H, stdlib subprocess, timeout-bounded); fixture from the real disks; deploy docs.
  2. 02_disks_source_poller_store.md — the disks source (payload + disk.*@dev samples), its own poller job at DISKS_INTERVAL_SECONDS (default 300), rollups + retention in store.py.
  3. 03_disks_api_and_config.md — /api/disks/snapshot + /api/disks/history, config wiring, 404 {"configured": false} without dialling, severity rows for the health/temperature metrics.
  4. 04_disks_page_and_overview.md — the /disks page (per-disk cards, alarm chips, per-host history charts), nav tab + overview entry + header status dot.

Testing & Quality

  • Hermetic: fixture-driven agent tests (tests/test_agent.py + recorded smartctl output), tests/test_disks_source.py (new), tests/test_api.py key-path pins (with and without config), node --check.
  • Live: uv run pytest -m live --live — the agent on deskwork/driveripper answers smart fields for its real disks; live tests must not write (no smartctl -t, no self-test on hardware something is plugged into).
  • Browser (DoD): screenshots in data/logs/ — per-disk cards on live data, the "smartctl not available" state, the overview with the new tab.
  • Coverage: >90% on new/modified code, ≥94% overall gate maintained.

Completion Criteria

  • GET /api/disks/snapshot answers per-disk smart data for every physical disk the agents report; 404 {"configured": false} with no agents configured, without dialling
  • /api/disks/history serves the disk.*@dev series through the existing rollups
  • the /disks page renders one card per physical disk (never per-partition) with health, temp, power-on hours and non-zero alarm chips
  • a host without smartctl (or a denied read) shows dimmed n/a cards, never a red page
  • bash .agents/validate.sh green; screenshots in data/logs/