Monitoring NFS Mounts

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Thu Oct 17 18:16:56 CEST 2002


I should probably be reading the docs on nagios-statd (again) to try and
figure this one out for myself, but you sound like a proponent of this
approach, so let me tap you with a few questions:

- If you only have non-root access to a Unix host, can you successfully
install and configure nagios-statd?  (You may assume that you've already
successfully done the binary build.)

- I seem to recall that it requires Python to be installed on the target
host.  While I personally don't have an issue with that, I know I'll meet
resistance on this point from my peers (especially on hosts where we don't
have root access).  Is Python an absolute prerequisite?

- What sort of support is there for logfile watching?  The classic need to
sift through the likes of /var/log/messages (/var/adm/messages) for "err",
"warn" and the like, without wholesale copying of the current logfile and
doing a diff against the previously copied logfile...?  (Hint:  I rather
enjoy the way Perl uses seek/tell.)

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fredrik Wänglund [mailto:Fredrik.Wanglund at datavis.se]
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 5:47 AM
> To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]; Kaplan, Andrew H.; Subhendu Ghosh
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Monitoring NFS Mounts
> 
> 
> A have used nagios-statd for a while, and it works perfect 
> for me. As a bonus you can use it for remote monitoring of 
> other things too...
> 
> 
> /FredrikW
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent:	Wed 16-Oct-02 20:21
> To:	'Kaplan, Andrew H.'; 'Subhendu Ghosh'
> Cc:	'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject:	RE: [Nagios-users] Monitoring NFS Mounts
> 
> Ah, now we're getting to the crux of the problem.  :)
> 
> [soapbox]
> I'm not trying to give you a hard time; I'm trying to 
> illustrate to others
> that it's best to present the macro view of the problem 
> rather than the
> micro view of the problem.  By the same token, it's not helpful if one
> throws their entire problem over the fence, hoping that the 
> list will solve
> their problems magically.
> [end soapbox]
> 
> Options as I see it:
> 
> - check_disk + NRPE
> - check_disk + NSCA
> - Nagios statd
> - check_disk + have Nagios server NFS mount remote host
> 
> There are probably other approaches.  I'd personally lean 
> towards the first
> option.
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [mailto:AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:42 AM
> > To: 'Subhendu Ghosh'
> > Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Monitoring NFS Mounts
> > 
> > 
> > What I'm looking to do is monitor the disk space usage of the 
> > NFS mounts. 
> > Will the check_rpc plug-in used in conjunction with the 
> > check_disk plug-in 
> > do the trick?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:34 PM
> > To: Jamin
> > Cc: Kaplan, Andrew H.; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring NFS Mounts
> > 
> > 
> > check_rpc -h 
> > 
> > NFS, nfslock, nis are all RPC programs
> > 
> > -sg 
> > 
> > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jamin wrote:
> > 
> > > Possibly.  If you can find out which udp ports the mounts 
> > are connected
> > > via, you could probably write a plugin.  (or use the 
> > check_udp plugin)
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I don't know if this topic has been discussed, but is 
> > there a way to
> > monitor
> > > > NFS mounts on a system?
> > > > 
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