free space monitoring

[dsipe]

Hello,

I've created a lot of vfs.fs.size[ fs, pfree] to monitoring the free % of disk space on my filesystems (more than 200 ...)

Now, i'd like the monitor all of them and get an email when %free < 20.

does i need to create an trigger for each of them ?

[tapto]

If the host are simmilar you can create a template and use the
template for each host.

[dsipe]

that what i have started to do :

1) create a template for that king of host
2) create ALL the items to monitor the filesystems [vevery very boring and timeconsumming with the HTML interface..]

=> so i'd like to avoid doing the same thing for the triggers

[tapto]

So you have one host with many mounted file systems.
Then I think you have to do the tiggers manually as well.

[Alexei]

=> so i'd like to avoid doing the same thing for the triggers

You don't have to create triggers for each host, just create the triggers for a template.

[dsipe]

maybe i don't explain correctly my problem.

i'll try to tell it more clearly now :

1) i need to monitor the free space on many filesystems located on many different AIX file server.

2) some of those filesystems exist on all the AIX server, some are specific to only one of them

3) to acheive this monitoring under zabbix, i create only ONE template with all the items inside [ 1 item per filesystems to monitor ] => very boring and timeconsumming job as i need to create more than 200 items...

4) to get an email when the free space is < 20% for EACH filesystems, what i believe at the moment is that i have to create one trigger per item.

5) then i'll have to create one[?] or more actions to get the mail


What i'd like to avoid is point 4).

[tapto]

4) to get an email when the free space is < 20% for EACH filesystems, what i believe at the moment is that i have to create one trigger per item.

5) then i'll have to create one[?] or more actions to get the mail

What i'd like to avoid is point 4).

I'm affraid you have todo point 4.

You can use templates for items and triggers, to help you with the setup of many hosts.

But if one item trigger is specific for one host i would only put that on the host not in the template.

I would also use many templates if the hosts are different. Group the simmilar hosts in different templates.
You could use a template for template, I think ?. Master template and then sister template.
I was playing with this in my setup and i seem to work proppertly.

But you will still have some work to do I think.

When i was doing my setup i was using copy / past but be careful to use the correct hostname when seting up the triggers.

I got som funny triggers when i was doing my setup.