[hobbit] Monitoring filesystems?

Chuck Morrison cmorrison at corniceco.com
Thu Aug 11 19:36:44 CEST 2005


Don't you love it when someone answers his own post for help ?

The issue was that both bb-nfs and network2 rely on ksh, which wasn't 
installed on the fileserver. linking to bash worked. So it was indeed 
something obvious.

Thanks to all, especially Henrik, for a great tool.

Chuck Morrison wrote:

> On a similar line of thought. I've been trying to set up our 
> fileserver (NFS and SAMBA on Fedora core 2 Linux) to show nfs exports 
> using network2.sh and/or bb-nfs. Neither one is showing on the hobbit 
> monitor, nor are files being generated in the hobbit server's 
> data/hist or data/histlogs directories. Oddly, I have the network2.sh 
> working on numerous other servers and it works fine. Those are also 
> RedHat variants, mostly CentOs. The setups in bb-bbexttab and 
> bbsys.local are identical to the ones that work, network2.sh exists 
> with proper permissions and I've restarted the client and server 
> scripts numerous times. The startup of bbclient on the fileserver 
> shows that network2.sh is one of the external scripts that is started.
>
> Am I missing something obvious here ?
>
> Rolf Schrittenlocher wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>
>>> It would be fairly easy to add a check in the client disk handler
>>> so that you could configure certain filesystems that must be present in
>>> the disk status report.
>>>
>>> Right now the client config goes like
>>>
>>>    disk /export/home  80 95
>>>
>>> which as you say just defines the thresholds. We could add a "required"
>>> keyword after the thresholds and if it's there, then the disk status
>>> will go red if it's not there - same as we do for the process checks.
>>>
>>
>> we would appreciate this feature!
>>
>>
>> Rolf Schrittenlocher
>>
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