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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 3, 2025

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CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent. In order to improve their monitoring integration with Grafana, client needs to shorten the frequency of some GUI tasks . I used the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chtask <task> --period <min> and frequency was changed, however, it didn´t persist when restarting the GUI.

The command exists to change the period of the task, but once GUI is restarted, the period is back to its default.

# ./chtask --help
usage: chtask taskName {--active | --inactive | --fixtime <time> | --period <minutes>}
Change a task on the selected cluster to a scheduled or not scheduled state.

Parameter Description
taskName Identifies the task to change.
--active add a task to the list of scheduled tasks.
--inactive remove a task from the list of scheduled tasks.
--fixtime schedule a task to run once a day at specified time.
--period schedule a task to run periodically.
 

# ./chtask STORAGE_POOL --period 10
EFSSG1000I The command completed successfully

Idea priority Low

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