<span class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_quote">UPDATE ON MY QUESTION<br><br>On 2/24/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roger</b> <<a href="mailto:Roger@nagioswiki.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Roger@nagioswiki.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid">
<div>I'm looking for a solid *proven* plugin (that I can run via NRPE) that will give me a good idea of disk i/o on *nix servers, particularly AIX ones.</div><div> </div><div>I'm thinking that maybe there is something out there gives me a nice sampling of something like the following:</div>
<div> </div><div>iostat -As (s = system throughput report)</div><div> </div><div>and/or</div><div> </div><div>iostat -AQ (Q = io requests to each disk queue)</div><div> </div><div>Any ideas? If not, then I'll have to figure out a way to write my own. But I'm hoping to find something else I might build on top of.</div>
</blockquote></span><div><br>Shortly after writing this, I found this plugin</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.ofn.dk/files/software/check_iostat" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.ofn.dk/files/software/check_iostat</a></div>
<div> </div><div>Anyone have any experience with this? I will give it a go and report back...<br><br>******************<br><br>UPDATE: <br><br>I configured my Perl environment (i.e. installed Perl modules from cpan, etc), and now when implement this from the commad line, I get something like this<br>
<br>./check_iostat.pl<br>IOSTAT OK - user 2.01 nice 0.00 sys 3.46 iowait 2.38 idle 92.15 | iowait=2.38%;; idle=92.15%;; user=2.01%;; nice=0.00%;; sys=3.46%;;<br><br>this doesn't have /dev/ info that I'd expect to get from iostat, such as sda<br>
<br>e.g.<br><br>avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle<br> 2.01 0.00 3.46 2.38 92.15<br><br>Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn<br>sda 11.22 1.24 657.43 3555644 1883264680<br>
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 1058 264<br>sda2 82.29 1.24 657.43 3552855 1883260808<br>sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 571 0<br>
dm-0 3.76 0.70 29.42 2000490 84266064<br>dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 994 1600<br>dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 4930 2504<br>
dm-3 0.31 0.00 2.45 5826 7009024<br>dm-4 3.95 0.25 31.44 723226 90062328<br>dm-5 74.28 0.29 594.12 816842 1701922896<br>
<br>What might I be missing?<br></div>