Monitoring many filesystems

[rdejean]

We make extensive use of LVM on linux and aix servers. We have many filesystems across servers, with names such as /ora2, /ora4, /tsm2, /orafs, /bb, /orasan, etc etc.

There is no naming standard... each server could be different. I'd like to not have to create items/triggers for each filesystem on each server. Since there is no naming standard, creating one big template and only enabling needed items/triggers on each server would also be tedious.

Is there a way for Zabbix to monitor ALL local filesystems? And trigger when any file system usage is over a certain threshold?

[alixen]

Hi,

I don't think that you can do it with standard Zabbix agent parameters.

You may use an UserParameter with a shell script that will use 'df' command and return maximum value of 'Use%'. It will not tell you which filesystem is filling up but, at least, you'll be warned.

Regards,
Alixen

[svenw]

http://www.zabbix.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15986

this is doing exactly that, and also improving the per-mountpoint watch, as the "max %" will not allow usefull display of historical data...