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kapone1
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Question about the smartd daemon in ESXi 5.1

The default polling interval is set to 30 minutes. Any way to change this (and make it persistent across reboots)?

Thanks.

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kapone1
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Anybody?? I'd really like to set this at 24 hours instead of just disabling it.

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kapone1
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Please?

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lamw
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What's the reason for increasing the polling interval?

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kapone1
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I don't want my disks waking up every 30 minutes? They are set to spin down.

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lamw
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Thanks for the reason. I've reached out to some folks internally and it is currently not possible to change the polling interval for smartd. I've gone ahead and filed a feature request as it seems like a useful thing to have. Thanks

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kapone1
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Much appreciated.

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