[Xymon] [xymon] AIX df command problem

[Steve Holmes]

[Just in case this is useful to someone...]

Over a year ago I posted a question about getting Xymon 4.2.3 and AIX df to
play nice together. I solved the problem by using a freeware version of df
that has an option for Posix formatted output in the client script (see
included messages).

I just discovered that we were not getting alerts for full file systems on
AIX servers. The disk column wasn't even turning red or yellow. After
digging into it I found that the hobbitd/client/aix.c module in the source
needed to be changed to reflect the change in the headers produced by this
version of df. After changing it and re-installing we were suddenly greeted
by a multitude of almost full file systems on our AIX servers.

Steve

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was the ticket which we found. That plus /use/freeware/bin/df which
> does both local file systems and POSIX output format.
> Thanks
> Steve
>
> Wherever you go, there you are.
>
> On Jul 29, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:
>
> > Should have mentioned, on the client under the client/bin dir are various
> hobbitclient-os.sh scripts.  Maybe you can have a look on your AIX client
> for some clues....
> >
> > This is from a 4.2.0 client.
> >
> > client/bin gegrep -3 df hobbitclient-aix.sh
> > uptime
> > echo "[who]"
> > who
> > echo "[df]"
> > # The sed stuff is to make sure lines are not split into two.
> > df -Ik | sed -e '/^[^   ][^     ]*$/{
> > N
> > s/[     ]*\n[   ]*/ /
> > }'
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: sholmes42 at gmail.com [sholmes42 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve
> Holmes [sholmes42 at mac.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:19 PM
> > To: xymon at xymon.com
> > Subject: [xymon] AIX df command problem
> >
> > I am having a problem similar to one recently posted, but this is on an
> AIX host and is caused (I think) by a problem in the way xymon does df on
> AIX.
> > The xymon version is 4.2.3 and the AIX OS version is 3.5 (I think, I'm a
> Solaris Admin). Anyway, I can find no way to force the df on AIX to use
> POSIX formatting AND to report only local file systems. Even if I could, I
> don't think I can override what xymon uses for df since the comments in the
> hobbitclient.cfg file say that the envariable definition is only there for
> compatibility and it is not used.
> >
> > The problem is that an NFS mount file system line in the df output is
> being parsed wrong and the number in the usage column is being used for the
> percent used (Available) so that is a huge number. Not only that, again
> similar to the previous problem, the file system name is being picked up as
> the contents of the last 3 fields in the output line, i.e. it is not
> /mnt/tsmupdates (which is what it should be) but "3020485 50% /tsm/updates",
> which, of course, prevents me from effectively ignoring that file system.
> I've tried using
> >
> > DISK %.*/mnt/.* IGNORE
> >
> > and that doesn't work.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions? We have a big red page where we
> shouldn't have.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> >
>
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