You could always grab a copy of xymonclient.sh and xymonclient-linux.sh and adjust the information gathering parts to run everything over ssh (never rsh. Authentication and encryption for ftw)
Just hardwire the xymonclient.sh to send the details as the server you're monitoring.
Steve Anderson
-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Michael Beatty Sent: 10 April 2013 15:28 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Checking disk space on a "backup" system
All of the hosts that I will be monitoring have a backup. This backup is, for most all practical purposes, idle. It does nothing but sits and wait for someone to move it into production. The primary system copies files and database exports over to this backup system. I had no intention on running a Xymon client on these backup systems (though one would be installed and waiting to be started), the only monitoring is a ping test.
With that said, one exposure that exists on these backup systems is that the disk space in the file system has the potential to fill up. Is there any functionality built into xymon that would let me check the disk space on this remote system and report it back from the primary system?
My initial thought was to write an extension script that does an 'rsh backup du /home/user/' and parsing the results and test against a threshold, but I would prefer to utilize what is built into xymon before recreating the wheel.
Thanks
-- Michael Beatty
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