RE: [xymon] missing disk detection

["Root, Paul" <Paul.Root (at) qwest.com>]

Write a script. Anything that  you can run via the command line, can be scripted.  Basically you do this:

run command that tells you about the disks

parse that output looking for error messages or bad words like "missing"

Send a message using bb (is that renamed xymon in 4.3.0 beta3?)

bb 0.0.0.0  "status+15m hostname MyDisks color output of command"

0.0.0.0 would be the ip address of your server if you only have 1
status+15m means every 15 minutes the server expects an update, otherwise it will go purple
hostname is whatever is in bb-hosts (hosts.cfg)
MyDisks is the name of your custom test that this script is running
color  - green|red|yellow
any more output is optional, but very helpful in looking at the test's screen.


Then you can either run that script from a crontab or hobbitlaunch.cfg (xymonlaunch.cfg).




Paul Root
Lead Internet Systems Eng
Network Services



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From: Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber (at) gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:17 PM
To: xymon (at) xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] missing disk detection

Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

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