Merged disk checks

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Markus,

I feel your pain; been there, done that, went back to the verbose approach.
Yes, there's a way of doing it.  Things to consider:

Advantages:

- saves you lots of manual configuring

Disadvantages:

- you set the thresholds once for a given host, and they apply to all
partitions (which can be less than desireable if you're running, say, an
Oracle database server, where in some cases the data files consume (nearly)
all of the available space)
- there's a limit to the length of the message (I believe it's 1K) which is
sent back to Nagios, so you'll end up lacking details on *all* of the
partitions
- looking at reports such as the Status Grid, you won't be able to see at a
glance what all the partitions are currently at

Try it out, see if you like the 'lite' approach:

   ./check_disk -w 10 -c 5

If you decide that the verbose reporting is preferable, you could save
yourself quite a few keystrokes with these tips:

- use a centralized nrpe.cfg file; distribute it to all the hosts after each
add/change/delete (don't forget to manage it with RCS/CVS/similar)
- use templates for each unique disk definition and use those in your config
files

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kraus, Markus [mailto:Markus.Kraus.hp at sysde.eads.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:47 AM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Merged disk checks
> 
> 
> Hello @,
> 
> I monitor about 100 servers each with at least 5 Partitions. 
> That makes over
> all 500 check_disk calls. Isn' t there a plugin which tests 
> all partitions
> of a system and returns only an over all status?
> 
> Any help which can be offered is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Markus
> 
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