[Xymon] usb disk not showing

[Kris Springer]

I tried
DISK /media/user/USB-1TB 80 90

Didn't work.

Kris Springer


On 11/28/22 11:00 AM, Adam Thorn wrote:
> 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
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