Hi Jordi, I am glad the change looks OK. You are welcome to mention me if you like.
Cheers, Mike. On 07/03/2012 09:24, Jordi Sanfeliu wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Actually the '-a' parameter reports extra information that Monitorix > does not need, as it only needs the information provided by the '-A' > parameter. Perhaps the disks are forced to wake up when providing some > of this extra information. I don't know. > > I've been testing three types of disk (IDE, SATA and SCSI) and it seemed > that none of them were affected by the change in the parameter, and > Monitorix was able to continue collecting the desired information. > > So, if the '-A' does not wake up the disks, I think we can safely stay > with it. > > I'll make some further tests and if all is good I'll introduce this > change for next 2.5.0 version. If so, and if you don't mind, I'll > include your name and this email address in the Changes file. > > Many thanks. > Best regards. > > > > On 03/06/2012 12:58 PM, Michael Perry wrote: >> Hi Jordi, >> >> Thanks for the quick response. On further investigation it seems the >> 'smartctl -a' command does wake up the drives. It pauses to wake up just >> before the output >> >> SMART Error Log Version: 1 >> No Errors Logged >> >> So perhaps my drive does something stupid like keep the log on the disk! >> >> I changed the command to 'smartctl -A' in the application and now all is >> fine. Possibly not suitable for everyone though as I am not sure what >> section the '^Current Drive Temperature:' comes from. I have come across >> at least one other person with this problem so maybe you could change >> the command to just include the relevant sections? >> >> >> Now for the next step I think I will write a script to restart monitorix >> at night with a different configuration file that doesn't check disk >> space and then doesn't revert to the normal config until the drives wake >> up again... >> >> Regards, >> Mike. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Monitorix-general mailing list Monitorix-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monitorix-general
