[Xymon] sepparated disk alerts

[Ralph Mitchell]

I have a similar problem - systems with OS partitions, database partitions
and application partitions.  I'd like to be able to send alerts to the
appropriate groups when they fill up.  What I have tried so far is a
specialized alert script that examines the alert message and pick outs the
filesystems flagged yellow or red for sending emails to the correct
responders.  It's not ideal, but it works.  It's direly in need of some
kind of config file to map system:fileystem to email address.

Ralph Mitchell


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Aiquen <aiqueneldar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings
>
> I don't know if this is the correct forum for this question or more
> like it, new feature request. How ever I'm gonna post here and hope
> someone will point me right if this is the wrong place.
>
> For the issue at hand. At my company we use Xymon to monitor thousands
> of servers. And sometimes disks gets filled and thus generates an
> alert. Sometimes this won't get looked into for a couple of days since
> our clients have specified that they want to remove data themselves
> (and not buy more storage). And as several servers have 3 - 8 disk
> and/or partitions we sometimes have trouble monitoring the other disks
> since one is already sending an alert.
>
> Example:
> Server1 has 3 monitored partitions of a disk:
> /
> /srv/important/data
> /srv/database
>
> with the same limits on all three: 80% -> yellow alert; 90% -> red alert
> Then if /srv/important/data reaches 82% the client wants us to notify
> them and they will free up space. This normaly takes around 3 - 5
> working days. But they also wants us to monitor /srv/database. And say
> that 1 day after /srv/important/data gets filled, /srv/database
> reaches 84%. That will not trigger a new alert in the non-green status
> view which is what we monitor.
>
> The question/request is then as this: Is there a way to get the client
> to report each disk/partition as a separate alert, so we can disable
> the alert for one disk while receiving alerts for the other
> disks/partions. To use the example I want to be able to temporarily
> set /srv/important/data in disabled mode while still getting alerts
> from /srv/database
>
> I know this could be solved by writing my own script for the client,
> but that was disapproved of from management as they want as few custom
> scripts to maintain as possible (we already have dozens of custom
> scripts).
>
> All help and feedback is appreciated, thanks.
>
> Kind regards
> Calle Lejdbrandt
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