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Argus Monitor
Original author(s)Argotronic UG
Developer(s)Argotronic UG
Initial release2009
Written inC++, C
Operating systemWindows 2000 and later
Available inMultilanguage
TypeSystem temperature and HDD (hard disk drive) health monitor
LicenseShareware

Argus Monitor

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Argus Monitor is a software for monitoring temperatures and status of serveal system components, e.g. CPU temperature, GPU temperature and HDD temperature. All temperatures are displayed graphically. Additionally, the status of the hard disk drive will be monitored by constantly checking the so called critical SMART attributes. If one attribute decreases, the user is displayed an information (optionally), informing him of decreased HDD health. If one of the SMART attributes reaches its specified threshold, the user gets a warning that a hardware failure is imminent.


Features

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  • Monitor your hard disk drive temperature and the health status of your hard disk drive by constantly checking the critical S.M.A.R.T. attributes
  • Warns you with a probability of up to 70 percent before a hard drive fails
  • Graphical display of the temperatures of your hard disk drives
  • Monitoring and graphical display of GPU temperature
  • Graphical display of the CPU temperature (independently for each CPU core)
  • Graphical display of core frequency (enables you to check if power management is working)

See also

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English comparison of SMART tools

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This is a list of notable software that reads S.M.A.R.T. data from hard drives.


 
 ArgusMonitor  smartmontools SMARTHDD libatasmart HDAT2 DriveSitter HDD Health Active Smart SpeedFan SMARTReporter HDTune Norton System Doctor SMART Utility DiskCheckup Hard Disk Sentinel DiskChecker
Operating System Windows Win
Unix-like
Mac
Windows Linux DOS Windows Windows Windows Windows Mac OS X Windows Windows Mac OS X Windows Win, DOS, Linux Windows, .NET Framework 3.5
Price 14,95€, $19,95 Open Source $15 ... 29 Open Source Freeware $24.95 Freeware 18,46 € Freeware Open Source Freeware proprietary $25.00 for personal, other uses/prices available Freeware for personal use, 15.00 $ otherwise Windows: from 18,00 €, DOS/Linux: Freeware Freeware
Trial version can be used 30 days - - - - 30 days - 21 days - - - - 30 days/5 launches - - 30 days
 
Target group
 
beginners to advanced professionals beginners to advanced professionals, programmers professionals advanced beginners to advanced beginners to advanced beginners to advanced beginners beginners to advanced beginners beginners to advanced beginners to advanced beginners to advanced beginners
 
User Interface
 
graphical Commandline,
optional daemon or service
graphical Command line,
Programming Library
text menu graphical graphical graphical graphical graphical graphical graphical graphical graphical Windows: graphical, DOS/Linux: commandline graphical
 
Connection
 
(S)ATA (S)ATA, SCSI, SAT (incl. some USB) (S)ATA (S)ATA, SAT (incl. some USB) (S)ATA (S)ATA, SAT (incl. some USB) (S)ATA (S)ATA, SCSI, SAT (incl. some USB) (S)ATA, SCSI, SAT (S)ATA (S)ATA (S)ATA, SCSI, SAT (incl. some USB) (S)ATA, SCSI, SAT (incl. some USB) (S)ATA (S)ATA, SCSI, SAT (incl. some USB) (S)ATA
 
Reads hard discs on RAID controllers:
- 3ware (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows),
Compaq/HP (Linux, FreeBSD),
and HighPoint and Areca (only Linux)
- - yes -
Software RAID only -
Areca, 3ware and Software RAID - -
? 3ware,
Compaq/HP
OS X Software RAID
SeriTek
Software RAID only 3ware,
Software RAID
 
Shows error log
 
no yes no no yes yes yes no no no no no yes yes yes no
 
Self testing
 
no yes (also scheduled) yes yes yes yes no no yes no no no yes yes (also scheduled) yes ?
 
Prediction of failure
 
yes no yes yes no yes yes yes yes no no no yes yes yes yes
 
Notification at
 
choosable parameter changes , threshold choosable parameter changes , threshold, temperature threshold, temperature, raw count changes - - choosable parameter changes, threshold, temperature, raw count changes every parameter change, temperature threshold, temperature choosable parameter changes , threshold, temperature threshold, - threshold, (for every single medium) announced[citation needed] temperature temperature, health (different levels), parameter changes, threshold, new problem found, low disk space at startup, low health
Notification by window window (only Windows), e-mail, system log, run a certain command window - - window, sound, e-mail, network message, system log, run a certain command, shutdown/sleep/hibernate window, sound, e-mail, network message, system log window, sound, e-mail, network message window, sound, e-mail, run a certain command window, e-mail, run a certain command - taskbar symbol, sound, administrative message announced[citation needed] window, e-mail taskbar, window, e-mail, network message, sound alert (optionally repeating), run commands, run automatic backup projects, shutdown/hibernate window, task bar notification
Notes Also shows temperature of CPU, GPU and CPU core speed Possibility of AAM and further parameter, surface testing Change of AAM and APM, HDD repair and diagnostics, file systems defragmentation API for other programs highly scalable, can be set to activate hibernation mode on critical temperature highly scalable, can be set to activate hibernation mode on critical temperature can be set to activate hibernation mode on critical temperature offers online drive analysis [1], monitors PC temperatures benchmarks and surface testing individual configuration for every medium, Interface for Disc Doktor/chkdsk: surface testing, complete testing at restart based on smartmontools Complete remote management, remote monitoring by browser, acoustic management, scheduled and automatic projects upon problems, scheduled and manual disk testing, performance and logical disk information