[hobbit] Help with disk monitoring

[Bailey, Edward]

Thanks for your quick response:) I did see that we have the big brother
client installed so I need to plan on upgrading the clients first.

Thanks again

Ed 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:28 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Help with disk monitoring
> 
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:21:16PM -0500, Bailey, Edward wrote:
> > Also the file systems from these problem servers show up 
> differently 
> > as well. The standard file system mounts are displayed without an 
> > issues but the LVM maps display the mount point but nothing else
> > 
> > /dev/mapper/sysvg-opt
> > /dev/mapper/sysvg-var
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1      2016016    216060   1697544  12% /
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p2      3020172    950024   1916728  34% /usr
> 
> This is a classical problem with the Big Brother client - you 
> are apparently using the BB client instead of the Hobbit 
> client. What's happening is that the "df" command used on the 
> monitored servers breaks long lines in the output, so your 
> "df" output looks like
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1               579598    192382    356293  36% /
> /dev/mapper/vg1-lv_usr
>                        2568144    648964   1788724  27% /usr
> /dev/mapper/vg1-lv_var
>                        1048540    733448    315092  70% /var
> 
> and since the BB client does a 'grep "^/dev"' to weed out 
> entries like tmpfs, you only get the /dev/mapper line, not 
> the next line with the actual data in it.
> 
> The solution is to change the DFCMD setting on your servers 
> to "df -P", making it use the POSIX format output.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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