Monitoring Shared Storage

[Ciro Iriarte]

2008/9/29 Jay Chandler <lists at sequestered.net>:
> I've got a scenario that I'd imagine many of you have already dealt
> with, so before I roll my own solution I figured I'd ask y'all what
> you've done.
>
> I have roughly 50 servers or so that mount their home directories (as
> well as a few other things, but let's talk about /home for simplicity)
> from an NFS server (isilon at the moment, shortly to become a NetApp).
>
> Because space is expensive, periodically central storage fills up.  This
> results in /home sending out notifications from all 50 servers.
>
> Is there a good way to set things up so that if central storage fills up
> I don't get paged by every system we've got?  I don't want to give up
> monitoring /home on these hosts since our configuration monkey has
> screwed up before and NOT mounted the NFS share, leading to the
> mountpoint on local disk filling up instead.
>
> Thanks-- my apologies if this wasn't clear.
>
> --
> Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ
> Living Legend / Systems Exorcist
> Today's Excuse: bit bucket overflow
>

Can you check the FS directly on the NFS server?, that would be
better, and just check that the FS is mounted on your 50 clients...

To check mount points:
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=2588.html;d=1
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=1334.html;d=1
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=1552.html;d=1
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=2172.html;d=1

Regards,
Ciro

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