[Xymon] filesystem check with multiple disk monitors

[Bakkies Gatvol]

Thanks!   I will look at this - maybe a different/better way to do it. I have 70+ disks so dots across the screen is not practical.

G

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> From: jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au 
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:04:57 +1100 
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] filesystem check with multiple disk monitors 
> To: bakgat8 at hotmail.com 
> CC: xymon at xymon.com 
>  
> Looks good.  Also this: http://www.xymonton.org/monitors:fs-test 
>  
> This dynamically creates and removes "fs_<partition>" test dots for the  
> various filesystems (eg "fs_root", "fs_home", "fs_usr").  Long names  
> are converted to index numbers such as "fs_3" for the third filesystem  
> listed.  Each dot can be separately disabled or alerted as desired.  
>   Typically runs on the Xymon server and automatically gets what it  
> needs by querying the server via xymon calls, so no configuration  
> required apart from tasks.cfg. 
>  
>  
> On 28 February 2013 02:58, Bakkies Gatvol  
> <bakgat8 at hotmail.com<mailto:bakgat8 at hotmail.com>> wrote: 
>  
> Howdy 
>  
> I am a user from bigbrother days.  In bigbrother I cloned/customized  
> the filesystem check script to allow me to have more than one disk  
> column. I usually had columns for disk_sys (OS) , disk_dba (dbase) and  
> disk_app (application). This allowed me to wake the other people  
> (app/dba) when it was their disk problem, a problem I was not going to  
> touch anyway. In BB the script ran on the remote/client machine. Now  
> here in xymon I see disk is part of the data pulled for each client and  
> parsed on the server. I can (and have) written a test to run on the  
> client and send the status back up to xymon - the old BB way. I was  
> wondering if there was enough interest in above functionality for me to  
> make the effort to include it in the server side parse code. 
>  
>  
> I have already looked into this and got a not-pretty-code version  
> working with this expended config in analysis 
>  
> the FST (three chars) is appended to disk so below config will give  
> extra columns 
>        disk_dba disk_ard 
> in addition to just disk.   You can make as many extras as you want. 
>  
> Just disk got everything not put anywhere else ... being paranoid about  
> losing newly added filesystems, there must be a 'everything else'  
> column. 
>  
> HOST=dbasserverone 
>          DISK %^/ip|du|vd|hq|sp|st|hd|iq|dc|id|ht|dt|hp|dd|dq... FST=dba  
> 100 101 
>          DISK %^/[a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9] FST=dba 100 101 
>          DISK %^/dp... FST=dba 93 95 
>          DISK %^/redo..|arc.. FST=ard 90 95 
>  
>  
> In the screenshot the entries with disk_sys is actually the clients  
> running the old BB way.  "Everything else" is in disk_sys. For these  I  
> could hide the disk column, which is the column/monitor that the server  
> is generating. I just did not do the hide step. 
>  
> This is a test setup, we are evaluating moving to Xymon. I found no  
> commercial product that can do multiple filesystem checks the way I  
> want, but I could make Xymon do it. Yeah open source! 
>  
>  
>  
> -- Bakkies 
>  
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