check_disk behaviour for SAN hiccups

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Sorry, I should have specified the incantation.

Yes, I was specifying the specific partition.  :)

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:37 PM
> To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
> Cc: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] check_disk behaviour for SAN hiccups
> 
> 
> 
> Were you asking for the specific partition with check_disk?
> If so - it should probably be a critical instead of warning...
> 
> -sg
> 
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> 
> > A firmware upgrade was applied to our Hitachi SAN last 
> night.  One of the hosts attached to it burped and didn't 
> recover.  Here's one of the alerts that Nagios gave us:
> > 
> > [quote]
> > ***** Nagios 1.1 *****
> > 
> > Notification Type: PROBLEM
> > 
> > Service: Space on /ora_backup
> > Host: itdmln16
> > Address: itdmln16
> > State: WARNING
> > 
> > Date/Time: Tue Jun 17 22:52:19 CDT 2003
> > 
> > Additional Info:
> > 
> > Disk /ora_backup not mounted or nonexistant
> > [end quote]
> > 
> > Should this only be a 'warning'?
> > 
> > When one of my peers tried to do an 'ls' on the root 
> directory, he got the brief listing of the various files, 
> directories and mount points.  When he tried to do an "ls 
> -l", he got a couple I/O errors and then the long listing for 
> all the files, directories and mount points, minus the 2 
> SAN-based mount points.
> > 
> > Granted, this is a funky result for a single system; all 
> the other hosts connected to the same SAN didn't have any 
> such problem.  Still, it would have been nice if the plugin 
> had returned a 'critical' instead of a 'warning', as that 
> notification would have also been sent to the on-call pager.
> > 
> > jc
> > 
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