Missing partition in disk monitoring on Solaris 10

Benoit Schmid wrote:

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Dominique Frise wrote:

From hobbitclient-sunos.sh you can see that Xymon uses following
commands to report disk usage
...
echo "[df]"
ROOTFSTYPE=`/bin/df -n / | awk '{print $3}'`
/bin/df -F $ROOTFSTYPE -k
# Then see what fs types are in use, and weed out those we dont want.
FSTYPES=`/bin/df -n -l|cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'|egrep -v
"^${ROOTFSTYPE}|^proc|^fd|^mntfs|^ctfs|^devfs|^objfs|^nfs|^lofs|^sharefs"|sort|uniq`

set $FSTYPES
while test "$1" != ""; do
  /bin/df -F $1 -k | egrep -v " /var/run" | tail +2
  shift
done
...

This means that /var/run, /dev/fd, /system/object, /etc/mnttab,
/system/contract, /proc and /dev mounts are excluded from the output.
/var and /common seem to be lofs mounts and will be excluded as well.

On your solaris zones how do you monitor your filesysteme.
The problem that I have with df on the global zone is that hobbit
does not have read access to this var partition.
Therefore it is not monitored to on the global zone.

How do you proceed to monitor your disk spaces on your solaris zones?
I am thinking of patching this script.
Is there a better solution?

We use the sparse-root model for all of our Solaris servers running 
zones and do not have any issue like this.

Example from a server running 6 zones besides the global:

$ df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0       91499930 10685571 79899360    12%    /
/devices                   0       0       0     0%    /devices
ctfs                       0       0       0     0%    /system/contract
proc                       0       0       0     0%    /proc
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                 49238864    1440 49237424     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                      0       0       0     0%    /system/object
sharefs                    0       0       0     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
                      91499930 10685571 79899360    12% 
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
                      91499930 10685571 79899360    12% 
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
swap                 4194304      32 4194272     1%    /tmp
swap                 49237512      88 49237424     1%    /var/run
poolcpasd/root       30707712 2767296 20456153    12%    /zones/arescpasd
poolcpasp/root       30707712 2770120 20548811    12%    /zones/arescpasp
poolcpast/root       30707712 2770576 20547973    12%    /zones/arescpast
pooldev/root         108380160  911553 69755353     2%    /zones/aresdev
poolprd/root         146571264  819624 69509723     2%    /zones/aresprd
pooltst/root         146571264  815058 75230859     2%    /zones/arestst


Xymon displays:

  Wed May 27 08:00:20 CEST 2009 - Filesystems OK

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0       91499930 10685575 79899356    12%    /
swap                 4194304      32 4194272     1%    /tmp
poolcpasd/root       30707712 2767296 20456153    12%    /zones/arescpasd
poolcpasp/root       30707712 2770120 20548809    12%    /zones/arescpasp
poolcpast/root       30707712 2770576 20547972    12%    /zones/arescpast
pooldev/root         108380160  911553 69755350     2%    /zones/aresdev
poolprd/root         146571264  819624 69509720     2%    /zones/aresprd
pooltst/root         146571264  815058 75230854     2%    /zones/arestst


Dominique