Automatic way to monitor new filesystems?

Karl DeBisschop karl at debisschop.net
Wed Apr 23 06:20:16 CEST 2003


On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:19, Mark Plaksin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an way to get Nagios to notice and start monitoring newly-created
> filesystems?  We're looking at Nagios as a replacement for BigBrother.
> BigBrother does this automatically.  We have lots of filesystems on each of
> our machines; we add and delete database filesystems on a regular basis.
> 
> We've discussed writing a plugin that returns a warning if a "new"
> filesystem exists, where "new" means anything that's not in a list of
> filesystems we provide.  And then finding some magic (embedded Perl?) to
> get the list of monitored filesystems.  We've also discussed other
> similarly complicated scenarios.
>
> Does anybody have a pretty solution to this problem?

check_disk will monitor all file_systems if you don't specify which one
to check.

It does not flag 'new' file systems in ths manner. If you add and delete
filesystems routinely, why do you want this warning mode?

--
Karl



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