can i monitor a shared folder?

[arocha]

hello, i have installed a zabbix 2.4.4 in a server debian wheezy. but i dont know if has a posibility to monitor the shared folder in a host.

would appreciate very much if someone can help me to do it.

[zabbix_gunner]

shared from where ? is it an nfs mount ?

[arocha]

yes NFS, sorry , I have a shared folder on a server that I want to know if it can be accessed by another computer in my network. so I want to know if zabbix can do that kind of monitoring

[rasarasw]

You can monitor the NFS shared folder from the target server.

[zabbix_gunner]

yes you can monitor it on the host where the share is mounted...

[arocha]

but I need is to know if it is accessible from another computer. how do I know that within the same server? there is a monitor for that?.

[rasarasw]

On the host server, the share is local, so it is part of the local volume. On the target server it is a mount and you will see this as a mount. So, for example you share /opt/tool from server1 and mount it as /opt/tool on server2, you should be able to monitor it on server2 as /opt/tool. On server1, it is all part of /opt.

[zabbix_gunner]

use something like

stat -f <your mount point name> | grep Type | awk -F":" '{print $4}'|sed 's/ //'

and send 0 or 1 to zabbix server based on output of above command. You can use timeout command if you fear stat command might timeout on heavily used remote shares.