Disk Polling and Analysis

Configures settings which specify how often WindowSMART 2013 should poll disks in the computer, and for which types of conditions alerts should be raised.

WARNING: Do NOT disable this policy item. Disabling this policy item removes critical Registry entries that WindowSMART uses, and WindowSMART will automatically recreate default values. If you want to lock down these settings and prevent users from changing them, please set the policy to Enabled and specify the desired values.

Supported on: At least Microsoft Windows XP Professional with SP2 or Windows Server 2003 family with SP1

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSoftware\Dojo North Software\HomeServerSMART\Configuration
Value NameDpa
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

Disk Polling Interval for SMART Data (milliseconds - 180000 = 3 minutes, 600000 = 10 minutes, 3600000 = 1 hour, 86400000 = 1 day, 648000000 = 1 week)

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSoftware\Dojo North Software\HomeServerSMART\Configuration
Value NamePollingInterval
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Default Value600000
Min Value180000
Max Value648000000
Notify if a disk generates a Warning alert


  1. Notify the user
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSoftware\Dojo North Software\HomeServerSMART\Configuration
    Value NameReportWarning
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    ValueTrue
  2. Ignore the alert
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSoftware\Dojo North Software\HomeServerSMART\Configuration
    Value NameReportWarning
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    ValueFalse

Notify if a disk generates a Geriatric alert


  1. Notify the user
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSoftware\Dojo North Software\HomeServerSMART\Configuration
    Value NameReportGeriatric
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    ValueTrue
  2. Ignore the alert
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSoftware\Dojo North Software\HomeServerSMART\Configuration
    Value NameReportGeriatric
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    ValueFalse


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