Should we delete smartmon.py/sh?

[eatnumber1]

I see there is now a dedicated smartctl_exporter as part of prometheus-community here.

What's the future of smartmon.py/sh in this repository given that? Should we delete this one, so as to avoid features diverging between the two (actually three) implementations? I see some features in the python script already that aren't in the sh script and several that are in smartctl_exporter and not in smartmon.py/sh.

Also notable though is that node-exporter-textfile-collector-scripts is installed automatically on Ubuntu when you install prometheus (which recommends prometheus-node-exporter, which recommends prometheus-node-exporter-collectors, and "recommends" relationships are installed by default). So the current smartmon.py/sh is probably more widely deployed than smartctl_exporter.

If we delete smartmon.py/sh, we should probably prompt the package maintainers to add smartctl_exporter as a recommended package.

[deajan]

I'd prefer to stick with smartmon.py/sh since it allows to keep only one endpoint to monitor, just my two cents.