Hi Mike, As far as I know the only part where Monitorix could wake up the disk drives is when collecting their temperatures in the Disk graph.
It uses the command 'hddtemp -wqn <disk_drive>' where the '-w' parameter forces indeed the disk to wake up. Note also that this command is _only_ used if the 'smartctl' previous command failed to get the temperature information. Please, make sure if your hard drives are SMART capable, otherwise they are probably wake up by the 'hddtemp' command line. So, it shouldn't have any relationship with disabling the filesystem usage monitor. Just disable the Disk graph in /etc/monitorix.conf and your hard drives shouldn't be wake up anymore. Also, Monitorix _only_ reads its configuration file when it is started. Please, let me know if that helped you. Best regards. On 03/06/2012 12:27 AM, Michael Perry wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering if you can suggest a way to stop monitorix from waking up > hard drives when they are in standby mode? I am aiming for a low power > server and having two drives spun down saves me about 16 watts. > > Of course the most simple solution is to disable the filesystem usage > monitor completely, but that would be a shame. > > The only idea I have come up with so far is that (assuming I remember > correctly that the config file is parsed on every run) I could make a > little script to change the config file depending on drive status/time > of day. > > Thanks for the great software, > > Mike. > -- Jordi Sanfeliu FIBRANET Network Services Provider http://www.fibranet.cat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Monitorix-general mailing list Monitorix-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monitorix-general
