[Xymon] filesystem check with multiple disk monitors

Thanks!   I will look at this - maybe a different/better way to do it. I have 70+ disks so dots across the screen is not practical.

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From: jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:04:57 +1100 Subject: Re: [Xymon] filesystem check with multiple disk monitors To: bakgat8 at hotmail.com CC: xymon at xymon.com

Looks good. Also this: http://www.xymonton.org/monitors:fs-test

This dynamically creates and removes "fs_<partition>" test dots for the
various filesystems (eg "fs_root", "fs_home", "fs_usr"). Long names
are converted to index numbers such as "fs_3" for the third filesystem
listed. Each dot can be separately disabled or alerted as desired.
Typically runs on the Xymon server and automatically gets what it
needs by querying the server via xymon calls, so no configuration
required apart from tasks.cfg.

On 28 February 2013 02:58, Bakkies Gatvol
<bakgat8 at hotmail.com<mailto:bakgat8 at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Howdy

I am a user from bigbrother days. In bigbrother I cloned/customized
the filesystem check script to allow me to have more than one disk
column. I usually had columns for disk_sys (OS) , disk_dba (dbase) and
disk_app (application). This allowed me to wake the other people
(app/dba) when it was their disk problem, a problem I was not going to
touch anyway. In BB the script ran on the remote/client machine. Now
here in xymon I see disk is part of the data pulled for each client and
parsed on the server. I can (and have) written a test to run on the
client and send the status back up to xymon - the old BB way. I was
wondering if there was enough interest in above functionality for me to
make the effort to include it in the server side parse code.

I have already looked into this and got a not-pretty-code version
working with this expended config in analysis

the FST (three chars) is appended to disk so below config will give
extra columns disk_dba disk_ard in addition to just disk. You can make as many extras as you want.

Just disk got everything not put anywhere else ... being paranoid about
losing newly added filesystems, there must be a 'everything else'
column.

HOST=dbasserverone DISK %^/ip|du|vd|hq|sp|st|hd|iq|dc|id|ht|dt|hp|dd|dq... FST=dba
100 101 DISK %^/[a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9] FST=dba 100 101 DISK %^/dp... FST=dba 93 95 DISK %^/redo..|arc.. FST=ard 90 95

In the screenshot the entries with disk_sys is actually the clients
running the old BB way. "Everything else" is in disk_sys. For these I
could hide the disk column, which is the column/monitor that the server
is generating. I just did not do the hide step.

This is a test setup, we are evaluating moving to Xymon. I found no
commercial product that can do multiple filesystem checks the way I
want, but I could make Xymon do it. Yeah open source!

-- Bakkies

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