When installing the os-smart plugin to monitor drive health, the message below is displayed.
There is no /etc/periodic.conf file.
Just daily, weekly, etc, directories in /etc/periodic
Should this file be created or should an entry in the appropriate period be created?
QuoteMessage from smartmontools-7.4_1:
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smartmontools has been installed
To check the status of drives, use the following:
/usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/ad0 for first ATA/SATA drive
/usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/da0 for first SCSI drive
/usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/ada0 for first SATA drive
To include drive health information in your daily status reports,
add a line like the following to /etc/periodic.conf:
daily_status_smart_devices="/dev/ad0 /dev/da0"
substituting the appropriate device names for your SMART-capable disks.
To enable drive monitoring, you can use /usr/local/sbin/smartd.
A sample configuration file has been installed as
/usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample
Copy this file to /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf and edit appropriately
To have smartd start at boot
echo 'smartd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf