[hobbit] Check for mounted drives on *nix servers

Lennon, Padraig Padraig.Lennon at pioneerinvestments.com
Fri Feb 26 23:00:09 CET 2010


Good idea... 

Thanks 


Padraig Lennon 
Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Pioneer Investments Management Ltd
5th Floor |Georges Quay Plaza | Georges Quay | Dublin 2 | Rep. of
Ireland
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerald Sheets [mailto:questy at gmail.com] 
Sent: 26 February 2010 21:51
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Check for mounted drives on *nix servers

You can even toss an empty file on the mount and use the file check
facility to just check for it's existence.  If you can't see it, the
filesystem isn't mounted.

I use a hidden file:


/path/to/mount/.isAvail

Works like a champ.


--j


On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Odinn wrote:

> If you are referring to NFS mounted drives, it would be a simple
script to write to check using showmount
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> Jim Sloan
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> Just remember, today is the day you thought tomorrow was going to be
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "Lennon, Padraig" <Padraig.Lennon at pioneerinvestments.com>
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 3:03:05 PM
> Subject: [hobbit] Check for mounted drives on *nix servers
> 
> Is there a quick way in Hobbit/Xymon to check that certain drives are
> actually mounted on a given client?
> 
> I want to be alerted if a drive is not mounted.. (for restart etc...)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Padraig Lennon 
> Senior Systems Integration Engineer
> 
> Pioneer Investments Management Ltd
> 5th Floor |Georges Quay Plaza | Georges Quay | Dublin 2 | Rep. of
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