[Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows

[Becker Christian]

All,


think i have to apologize..... you're right, my idea doesn't work.
Dave's solution works, just tested.

Nevertheless it's a bit foolish that powershell client cannot report "non present" disks that have been present.....


Greetings
Christian



Von: David Boyer <davieb at gmail.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. April 2022 22:04
An: me at tdiehl.org
Cc: Becker Christian <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net>; xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: Re: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows

Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.

Dave

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <me at tdiehl.org<mailto:me at tdiehl.org>> wrote:
Hi Christian,

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:

> Tom,
>
>
> the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even if they already show up in the disk section.
>
> Example:
>
> HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
>       DISK   C   85   90
>       DISK   D   55   70
>
> (Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they are reflected by xymon.)
>
> Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on the windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this disk as red in the disk section.

I cannot get the above to work.

I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
HOST=fs1.mydomain.com<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffs1.mydomain.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cchristian.becker%40rhein-zeitung.net%7C092c7bea6e264e986aed08da2308f62f%7C4fed923898bc4f3b96450b99f4d1b669%7C0%7C1%7C637860818648835197%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Gf2KKsYhPP%2Bw2q8s7gkv%2BGl8sfubFhzPNSbMKYlTmlM%3D&reserved=0>
     DISK C 90 95
     DISK D 93 95
This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.

To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is less than
the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
     DISK z 93 95
What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is ignored
as it does not exist.

I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

--
Tom                     me at tdiehl.org<mailto:me at tdiehl.org>

>
>
> Regards and good luck!
> Christian
>
>
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> An: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows server?
>
> I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those disks is missing?
>
> We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy but the users were not.
>
> My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.
>
> Regards,
>
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