An SNMPD extension script providing the SNMP daemon with the ability to access harddisk SMART data as received by the smartctl monitoring utility allowing remote monitoring of drive health using SNMP. Information included in the entry for each disk includes Drive Serial Number, Temperature, Reallocated Sector Count, Current Pending Sector Count, Off-line Uncorrectable Sector Count and UDMA CRC Error Count. Various drive lifetime indicators are also monitored including Read Error Rate, Seek Error Rate and Hardware ECC Recovered Rate.