From 3ae10c87fa880d586736a4d8dd2dc1b9ef99b5ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Bachlechner <62039342+bachandi@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:43:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation. --- man/man5/monitorix.conf.5 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5 b/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5 index 27145c8..c14193d 100644 --- a/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5 +++ b/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5 @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ This is a list of groups of disk drives that you want to monitor. Each group wil .P WARNING: Every time the number of groups in this option changes, Monitorix will resize the \fIdisk.rrd\fP file accordingly, removing all historical data. .P -To collect the disk drive temperatures and health the \fIsmartmontools\fP or the \fIhddtemp\fP command are required. \fIsmartmontools\fP will wake up sleeping disk. To avoid this set \fIrespect_standby = y\fP. +To collect the disk drive temperatures and health the \fIsmartmontools\fP or the \fIhddtemp\fP command are required. Reading smart values will wake up sleeping disks and reset the sleep timer. To avoid waking them up set \fIrespect_standby = y\fP but they still won't got to sleep automatically. .P It is recommended that you first check if either \fIsmartctl\fP(8) or \fIhddtemp\fP are able to collect data from the disk drive(s) that you plan to monitor. You may test this with the following command: .P