We've got some storage systems that don't run xymon clients (because they are storage systems and speak their own CLI). I wrote a custom script that runs on the xymon server and connects to these devices to report volume usage. So far so good.

But now, I want to add functionality that exists on the built in disk test, like

DISK filesystem warnlevel paniclevel GROUP=groupname

Is there a way I can write my custom test to take advantage of all the built-in capabilities?

Would it make sense to write a script that mimics /home/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-<os>.sh and kick the results to xymonclient somehow? And if so how? Is there a good generic "os" to use?Will xymon fall over and cry when I don't have all the sorts of information that xymonclient usually has?

Or is there a better way to go about this?