[hobbit] HOWTO monitored NFS

[David Masterson (damaster)]

Buchan Milne <mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> scribbled on Monday,
February 16, 2009 8:15 AM:

> On Monday 16 February 2009 16:49:22 Naudit007 wrote:

>> I wish monitored sharing NFS on my servers like classic disks.
> 
> Why? Aren't you monitoring the NFS server?

What if the NFS server is a NetApp or EMC box?

> Or, do you really want alerts for 100 servers if one NFS server has
> low disk space?

Not necessarily a lot of servers -- maybe you only detail one server to
keep an eye on the NFS partitions?

> (maybe you do want it, but IMHO, it usually makes more sense to
> monitor the NFS shares once on the NFS server).

Only if the NFS server allows you to put a monitor on it.  Think *big*
company and turf politics...

David Masterson