mounted NFS volumes not included in disk utilization graphs

Thanks all for your detailed responses. I will just monitor the NFS host.

On Apr 1, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Malcolm <user-9734186ce057@xymon.invalid> wrote:

At my work, my team developed some "safe" coding to list NFS filesystems in df.
It uses the showmount command to list exports on the NFS server - if this succeeds, it should be safe to run df on the filesystem.

The comment in the code references the URL http://osdir.com/ml/monitoring.hobbit/2007/msg02373.html but it doesn't seem to exist now.

It's ugly and no doubt could be cleaned up and improved...
but it does work, and it's handy to know which clients are affected when a NFS volume becomes full.

Update to xymonclient-linux.sh :
================================
At the end of the code for "df", add these lines :

# --- Start - Addition code, to check nfs mounts ---
# Added following code, based on http://osdir.com/ml/monitoring.hobbit/2007/msg02373.html
#
/bin/bash -c "/bin/egrep $'[ \t]nfs[ \t]' /etc/mtab" | \
 /bin/egrep -v "ignore|indirect" | \
 /usr/bin/awk '{print $1, $2}' | \
 while read line
 do
 set -- $line
   NFSHOST=`echo $1 | /usr/bin/awk -F: '{print $1}'`
   SHARE=`echo $1   | /usr/bin/awk -F: '{print $2}'`
   /bin/ping $NFSHOST -c 5 >/dev/null 2>&1
   if [ $? -ne 0 ]
   then
     echo "$1 IS NOT RESPONDING(ping_failed) 999% $2"
   else
     # Ensure NFS connection is active BEFORE running the "showmount -e" command.
     /bin/df -k $2 > /dev/null 2>&1 & /bin/sleep 5 ; kill $! > /dev/null 2>&1
     /usr/sbin/showmount -e $NFSHOST >/dev/null 2>&1
     if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
       echo "$1 IS NOT AVAILABLE(showmount_failed) 999% $2"
     else
       /usr/sbin/showmount -e $NFSHOST | /bin/egrep "^$SHARE " >/dev/null 2>&1
       if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
         # Remove "/share" prefix as required for QNAP NFS servers
         SHARE1=${SHARE#/share}
         /usr/sbin/showmount -e $NFSHOST | /bin/egrep "^$SHARE1 " >/dev/null 2>&1
       fi
       if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
         echo "$1 IS NOT AVAILABLE(showmount_failed_to_find_share) 999% $2"
       else
         /bin/df -kP $2 | tail -n +2
       fi
     fi
   fi
 done
# --- End of - Addition code, to check nfs mounts ---


Regards
Mal

On 02/04/15 07:13, Henrik Størner wrote:

Den 31-03-2015 kl. 00:49 skrev Paul Grondahl:

On several systems with NFS mounts, the mounted volumes are not
included in the disk utilization graphs. The volumes are visible in
the client data. How does one get them included in the graphs?

There is a potential problem with including network disks in the "disk"
status: If your network connection to the NFS server dies, then the "df"
command is likely to stall. So you won't get any client data sent over
to the Xymon server, and your entire server goes purple.

That is why the Xymon client uses the "-l" (local) flag for df to NOT
report on network filesystems.


Regards,
Henrik