Dynamic Disk Utilization Monitoring

[bman1978]

I think this is a pretty well beaten dead horse but I am still searching for a solution.

Zabbix is 99% perfect except this one flaw, in my eyes.

I have ~30 AIX servers and they all have different storage layouts. I have gone the route of creating XML files to import into zabbix but that doesn't help me when I'm not the one adding a volume to a server and it is therefore not setup in zabbix.

Is there any way to dynamically add/delete items in zabbix or monitor disk utilization?

I'm not against writing scripts or pushing changes in via an API, running scripts on all of the servers periodically is fine, so long as I know that we are covering ourselves.

zabbix_sender seems like a possibility but I think that'd require the items to exist already.

I was thinking about maybe a generic item that simply tracks whether or not the server has a volume that's over a threshold (the threshold and logic would be controlled by a script that's run outside of zabbix). We'd then have to go to the server to see which volume is filling up.
But that seems like the wrong approach but might be a last resort

[untergeek]

From what I understand of current development, low-level detection of all file systems is going to be in Zabbix 2.0

You may have to wait a while for that release to be generally available, unfortunately.