[hobbit] ZFS Monitoring Script

[Rich Smrcina]

OK, then it's a software layer above the file systems, sort of like (but 
probably nothing like) LVM?

Mike Rowell wrote:
> The way ZFS works is to have storage pools, the script checks the status
> of the storage pools which is where the ONLINE, FAULTED, DEGRADED stuff
> comes in to it.
> 
> The capacity is just for my own information as we currently run only one
> zfs filesystem per storage pool, as you state this isn't really needed
> as it does duplicate other things, however it gives you the ability to
> see how much storage is in a pool, you can have multiple ZFS file
> systems inside each pool so it does have it's uses.
> 
> mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] 
> Sent: 12 April 2007 16:13
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] ZFS Monitoring Script
> 
> I concur, unless there's something specific that ZFS provides that is 
> critical to monitor.  This way the back end client code will be similar 
> to (or the same as) that for Linux.
> 
> Charles Goyard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mike Rowell wrote :
>>> File system sizes are set to alert yellow at 80% capacity and red at
>>> 90%, the variables to alter this are at the top of the file.
>> I don't know about ZFS, but are these the same kind of values "du"
>> reports ? If so, maybe it's a duplicate, or maybe you should format
> the
>> output the way "disk" does.
>>
>> Just a question/suggestion.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> 

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