Monitoring Shared Storage

[Assaf Flatto]

You can disable disk checking for the /home partition  or so you still know what is going on 
you can set up the test from the nagios ( mount point and monitor on itself) and the rest of 
the /home checks dependent on this service .


Assaf

On Monday 29 September 2008 10:29:38 Jay Chandler wrote:
> I've got a scenario that I'd imagine many of you have already dealt
> with, so before I roll my own solution I figured I'd ask y'all what
> you've done.
>
> I have roughly 50 servers or so that mount their home directories (as
> well as a few other things, but let's talk about /home for simplicity)
> from an NFS server (isilon at the moment, shortly to become a NetApp).
>
> Because space is expensive, periodically central storage fills up.  This
> results in /home sending out notifications from all 50 servers.
>
> Is there a good way to set things up so that if central storage fills up
> I don't get paged by every system we've got?  I don't want to give up
> monitoring /home on these hosts since our configuration monkey has
> screwed up before and NOT mounted the NFS share, leading to the
> mountpoint on local disk filling up instead.
>
> Thanks-- my apologies if this wasn't clear.



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Assaf Flatto
SSP Ops Team
Linux System Administrator





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