check_disk and filesystem issue.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:45 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>Mitch Lien wrote:
>>
>>>Hi.
>>>
>>>I am having a problem with the check_disk plugin on an HP/UX 11.11 server.
>>>
>>>A portion of the "df -Pk" command output is shown below.
>>>.
>>>.
>>>/dev/vgexeBKBCV/lvPRD
>>>                      1938469   282786  1655683    15%   /backupBCV/usr/sap/PRD
>>>/dev/vgexeBKBCV/lvoraclePRD
>>>                      1486472   742937   743535    50%   /backupBCV/oracle/PRD
>>>/dev/vg00/lvol7       2083352   329976  1753376    16%   /home
>>>/dev/vg00/lvol4       4169904  1065488  3104416    26%   /opt
>>>/dev/vg00/lvol5       523656   436496    87160    84%   /tmp
>>>/dev/vg_veritas/lvveritas
>>>                      143654360 66712376 76941984    47%   /usr/openv
>>>/dev/vg00/lvol6       4171528  1272152  2899376    31%   /usr
>>>/dev/vg00/lvol8       6107712  1442320  4665392    24%   /var
>>>/dev/vg00/lvol1       269032    91968   177064    35%   /stand
>>>/dev/vg00/lvol3       212216   109480   102736    52%   /
>>>========================
>>>
>>>When I run the check_disk plugin against any file system that occupies a 
>>>single line output (i.e. /, /var, /usr, etc.), the output is fine (example 
>>>shown below).
>>>
>>>$ ./check_disk -w 80 -w 90  -p /usr
>>>DISK OK - [2899376 kB (69%) free on /dev/vg00/lvol6]
>>>
>>>
>>>However, when I run the check_disk command against any file system that 
>>>occupies has a two (2) line output (i.e. /usr/openv, /backupBCV/usr/sap/PRD, 
>>>etc.), I am getting the following output (shown below).
>>>
>>>$ ./check_disk -c 80 -w 90  -p /usr/openv
>>>Unable to read output:
>>>/usr/bin/df -Pk /usr/openv
>>>/dev/vg_veritas/lvveritas
>>>
>>>I think the issue revolves around the two-line output, but am not sure. I need 
>>>to know if anyone has encountered this before and if there may be a possible 
>>>work-around.
>>>
>>
>>It does. Many have. Noone has a workaround (yet).
> 
> 
> Has anyone tried getting around this sort of thing by using GNU df?
> 

Not that I know of, although it should be fairly simple to use the 
statfs(2) equivalence on HP-UX. I'm sure there must be some syscall 
doing roughly the same work. GNU df would be a good starting point here. 
Perhaps that was what you were referring to?

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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