strange behavior with vfs.fs.size

[MADxHAWK]

Hi,

vfs.fs.size[<dir>,used] always return same incorrect value.

madx:~# zabbix_get -s radio-***.de -p 10050 -k vfs.fs.size[/etc,used]
207932032
madx:~# zabbix_get -s radio-***.de -p 10050 -k vfs.fs.size[/usr,used]
207932052
madx:~# zabbix_get -s radio-***.de -p 10050 -k vfs.fs.size[/var,used]
207932052
madx:~# zabbix_get -s radio-***.de -p 10050 -k vfs.fs.size[/home,used]
207932056

As you can see i alway get the same vale, excet a few bytes. In a subfolder of /home there are over 9.5GB of data but if i want to check this folder (/home/abc/def/_streamrecords) i also get same value as shown above.

-Greetz
MAD

[richlv]

and what does df -h (assuming gnu-like system) return on that server ?

[MADxHAWK]

The server that should be monitored is running Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-21lenny4)
Here are some outputs from the server i want to monitor (shell of radio-****.de)

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 457G 176G 258G 41% /
tmpfs 992M 0 992M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 752K 9.3M 8% /dev
tmpfs 992M 0 992M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md1 2.0G 79M 1.9G 5% /boot

du -sh /etc
6.7M /etc

du -sh /usr
837M /usr

du -sh /var
1.3G /var

du -sh /home
163G /home

[richlv]

oh, but vfs.fs.size is not for monitoring a directory size - it's for monitoring size of a mounted filesystem. so if the path is not a mountpoint, you get the data from whichever filesystem it resides on (in this case it seems to be simply /).

also, flash-only websites are evil. just sayin'

[MADxHAWK]

oh, but vfs.fs.size is not for monitoring a directory size - it's for monitoring size of a mounted filesystem. so if the path is not a mountpoint, you get the data from whichever filesystem it resides on (in this case it seems to be simply /).

Ok thanks is there any way to monitor the size of a directory then?

also, flash-only websites are evil. just sayin'

Damn just saw it. Forgot to replace one host with *** :/
Im working on it, im also quite new in flash will be changed soon. Thanks for the hint.

Greetz
MAD

[richlv]

Ok thanks is there any way to monitor the size of a directory then?

no built-in item. your best bet at this time would probably be a userparameter. you can take a look at userparameter_examples.conf for an example.

[MADxHAWK]

Thanks again ) will try this