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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m guessing that some others on the list will weigh in with some better options for you, but if you’d like to have a look at what I use, I’ve posted it on Nagios Exchange (</span><a href="http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/System-Metrics/File-System/check_disk_snmp/details">http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/System-Metrics/File-System/check_disk_snmp/details</a>).<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I ended up writing my own (in Perl) to get some of the extra features. One of those features is an attempt to give you more information about the disk (e.g. what the threshold for alerting is set at, the percent full as well as how much is left:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>DISK CRITICAL - [Threshold=95%, 96% full,14.1gb free on /snapshot] [Threshold=95%, 96% full,10.0gb free on /photos]<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The rest of the features are detailed on that page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hope it helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Brent <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Net Warrior [mailto:netwarrior863@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> Nagios Users List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] Disk Usage Report<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi guys.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I'm monitoring some AIX 5.3 servers, among other thing, the disk usage, when the service is restored, let's say, disk space return to the aceptable size I've get the notificatoin in this way:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>DISK OK - free space: /var 588 MB (76% inode=96%):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Is there a way to configure nagios to instead reporting the free/available disk space is, to report the % of used disk space instead?<br><br>Let's say:<br><br>DISK OK - free space: /var 50% , or 1500MB Used, or 50% or 1500MB or something like that, <br><br>The problem is that with this: DISK OK - free space: /var 588 MB (76% inode=96%) is that I do not know the total amount, so., 588 MB of what? 1G? 2G?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Did I myself clear?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Thanks in addvance.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>