[smartmontools-support] How to make smartd igore "ErrorCount"?

[Christian Franke]

Martin Drescher via Smartmontools-support wrote:
> Am 29.10.24 um 19:24 schrieb Christian Franke:
>> Hi Martin,
>>> Hello list members,
>>>
>>> is there a way in smartd.conf to ignore ErrorCount, 
>>> nvme-err-log-entries?
>>> Is there an attribute for this?
>>
>> Please be more specific. For example provide the syslog.conf entry 
>> and a sample syslog message that should be suppressed.
>
> All you find in the syslog is "Device: /dev/nvme1, number of Error Log 
> entries increased from [Some Number] to [Some higher Number]". This 
> happens on every restart, nvme error-log message is like "Successful 
> Completion...".
>
>> Do you possibly refer to the problem described here:
>> https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1222 ?
>
> Yes, I do. Unfortunately, I have a version 7.2 with a build date 
> 2020-12-30. So, if there is a way to mitigate that Email alerts via 
> smartd.conf, I would like to do so.

If nothing or '-a' is specified in smartd.conf, '-H -l error' is used 
for NVMe devices.
Use only '-H' to disable the check of the error log, for example:
   /dev/nvme1 -H
Add '-W ...' if temperature tracking is desired.