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

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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