Monitoring RAID status

[Thorsten.Erdmann (at) daimlerchrysler.com]

Hi,

I once extended the BigBrothers Disk Script to show a status dot and the 
sync status of mirrored disks in front of every filesystems status line. 
Now I migrated to Hobbit. Nearly all works fine but this extension causes 
the disk graphs to fail. If I understand it right, the do_disk.c program 
simply reads each line of the status file and displays the fifth column as 
the disk usage. Since my outfile from the client has two columns in front 
of each line this fails. The disk usage is now on column seven.

I can now alter the C code but that's bad if I ever install a new version 
of Hobbit. So is there any idea out there how to add data to an output 
file without disturbing the Hobbit's standard functions.

BTW: the disk test on a RedHat Box shows one "graph" to much. It's only a 
non referenced link, so I think Hobbit tries to interpret things that it 
cannot read, maybe the title line of the DF commmand's output.

Thanks for help
Thorsten Erdmann