On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:17:29PM -0600, Jeff Newman wrote:

Hi, New to hobbit/bb and have a question. I have a bunch of AIX hosts, and for whatever dumb reason, AIX doesn't have "DF" settings say that they don't do anything. [snip] So my question is, how can I exclude a filesystem from being monitored in hobbit? NFS or not, is there a way to simply say "hobbit just totally forget you even know /foo exists period" :-)

Two ways that I can think of:

1. Modify the client script that runs on your AIX boxes, so it doesn't report those filesystems. The script that collects the disk info is the ~hobbit/client/hobbitclient-aix.sh script; you'll see it is a fairly simple shell script. You can easily apply some filtering code to the "df" output to leave out certain filesystems, e.g.

   df | grep -v "^/foo"

   will remove all lines beginning with "/foo".

2. Keep the client script as is, and setup the hobbit-clients.cfg file to allow 100% utilisation for these filesystems. There's and example of that in the commented-out part of that file, but it basically is

   HOST=aix.foo.com DISK /foo 101 101

   You can combine this with the NORRDDISKS setting in hobbitserver.cfg if you also want to drop these filesystem from the disk graphs.

Regards, Henrik