monitoring for IO in Nagios

August Simonelli augusts at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 04:17:56 CEST 2006


Alex,

Thanks for the info ... sorry I wasn't any help to you but I came out
learning a lot! :-)

August

On 10/16/06, Alexander Harvey <alexh19740110 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That doesn't look like a Solaris script to me but as far as your coding is
> concerned, my thoughts are
>
> (i) get yourself a book on the k-shell 'cause it's a lot more powerful
> that the bourne (/bin/sh) shell.
> (ii) you can say
> vmstat -dp | awk '/sda/ {print $2}'
> instead of
> vmstat -dp | grep sda | awk '{print $2}'
> (iii) if you were using bash or ksh your could say
> readdiff=$(( $currreads - $prevreads ))
> instead of
> readdiff=$(expr $currreads - $prevreads)
> (iv) for security you ought to use full paths to all of your binaries:
> i.e.
> /usr/bin/echo
> instead of
> echo
>
> Otherwise I guess it'll work in Nagios (although most Nagios plugins can
> give warnings or critical alerts by exiting with exit codes 0 for OK, or 1
> for WARNING, or 2 for CRITICAL.
>
> Have fun,
> Alex
>
>
> On 10/16/06, August Simonelli <augusts at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alexander and list folks,
> >
> > I set up two little shell scripts for disk i/o calculations for mrtg
> > which i hope to use for nagios down the track. I'm still learning shell
> > scripting /nagios / etc so i welcome corrections to my logic, coding,
> > anything! :-)
> >
> > It's not really fancy, just uses vmstat to get disk reads and writes,
> > stores it, then compares that the next time.
> >
> > As i said, it's just for mrtg now so dunno if it will work for nagios,
> > but soon i'll play with it and find out.
> >
> > August
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/15/06, Alexander Harvey < alexh19740110 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I wonder if anyone out there is using Nagios to monitor disk I/O on
> > > UNIX servers and if so I'm curious as to how they're doing it, what plugins
> > > they're using, are they calling iostat from a shell script? What options of
> > > iostat are they calling etc?
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Alex Harvey
> > > UNIX Administrator
> > > Sydney, Australia
> > >
> > >
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