[Xymon] usb disk not showing

[Adam Thorn]

On 28/11/2022 13:57, Kris Springer wrote:
> I've recently installed a xymon server on Debian to monitor my home 
> network, and I'd like the server to also show the status of a USB drive 
> I have plugged into it.  The drive is listed as /dev/sda and mounted at 
> /media/user/USB-1TB
> It is listed in the xymon client data, but it doesn't show up on the 
> 'disk' or 'inode' columns at all.  I've commented out the default IGNORE 
> rules from analysis.cfg and even tried adding the following as a host 
> specific test, but still nothing appears.
> DISK /dev/sda 80 90
> INODE /dev/sda 80 90

For DISK and INODE entries in analysis.cfg you need to specify the 
mountpoint rather than the device name, e.g.

HOST=my.example.host
   DISK /media/user/USB-1TB 80 90

Quoting selectively from "man analysis.cfg"..

DISK filesystem warnlevel paniclevel
...
"filesystem" is the mount-point where the filesystem is mounted, e.g. 
"/usr" or "/home".

If you had a default IGNORE rule then I think that's non-standard, 
because the default rule for DISK is

DEFAULT
   DISK * 90 95

Note that analysis.cfg is read top-to-bottom and the first matching rule 
wins, so it's important to check that the analysis rule you're adding 
isn't being overriden by something earlier in the file.

Adam