Automatic way to monitor new filesystems?

[Mark Plaksin]

Jim Olsen <jim at cyberjunkees.com> writes:

> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 03:19 pm, Mark Plaksin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there an way to get Nagios to notice and start monitoring newly-created
> > filesystems?  We're looking at Nagios as a replacement for BigBrother.
> > BigBrother does this automatically.  We have lots of filesystems on each of
> > our machines; we add and delete database filesystems on a regular basis.
> >
> > We've discussed writing a plugin that returns a warning if a "new"
> > filesystem exists, where "new" means anything that's not in a list of
> > filesystems we provide.  And then finding some magic (embedded Perl?) to
> > get the list of monitored filesystems.  We've also discussed other
> > similarly complicated scenarios.
> >
> > Does anybody have a pretty solution to this problem?
> 
> It's my understanding that the check_disk plugin checks all partitions by 
> default - perhaps this would suffice for your needs?

Different folks get notified about different filesystems so it seems we'll
need to end up with one Nagios service per filesystem.  Or am I missing
something?



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