missing disk detection
list Larry Barber
Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected. Thanks, Larry Barber
list Johan Sjöberg
You should be able to set up a file check that verifies that a file on the SAN exists. If the disk is disconnected, the file check should go red. /Johan
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From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: den 12 januari 2011 21:17
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] missing disk detection
Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected.
Thanks,
Larry Barber
list Paul Root
Write a script. Anything that you can run via the command line, can be scripted. Basically you do this: run command that tells you about the disks parse that output looking for error messages or bad words like "missing" Send a message using bb (is that renamed xymon in 4.3.0 beta3?) bb 0.0.0.0 "status+15m hostname MyDisks color output of command" 0.0.0.0 would be the ip address of your server if you only have 1 status+15m means every 15 minutes the server expects an update, otherwise it will go purple hostname is whatever is in bb-hosts (hosts.cfg) MyDisks is the name of your custom test that this script is running color - green|red|yellow any more output is optional, but very helpful in looking at the test's screen. Then you can either run that script from a crontab or hobbitlaunch.cfg (xymonlaunch.cfg). Paul Root Lead Internet Systems Eng Network Services
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From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:17 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] missing disk detection
Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected.
Thanks,
Larry Barber
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list Larry Barber
Can you do that when the client is in "local" mode? Thanks, Larry Barber On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Johan Sjöberg <
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user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid> wrote:
You should be able to set up a file check that verifies that a file on the SAN exists. If the disk is disconnected, the file check should go red. /Johan *From:* Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid] *Sent:* den 12 januari 2011 21:17 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [xymon] missing disk detection Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected. Thanks, Larry Barber
list Johan Sjöberg
Yes, I think so, there are some extension scripts available for BBWin which can be used to do file checks on the client when running in local mode. I think one is even available in the installer "Fsmon" or something.
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/Johan
From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: den 12 januari 2011 21:44
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] missing disk detection
Can you do that when the client is in "local" mode?
Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Johan Sjöberg <user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
You should be able to set up a file check that verifies that a file on the SAN exists. If the disk is disconnected, the file check should go red.
/Johan
From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid>]
Sent: den 12 januari 2011 21:17
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [xymon] missing disk detection
Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected.
Thanks,
Larry Barber
list Stephen
I have "tag" files, ".mounted" at the top of each native f/s mount,
".NFSmount" at the top of each NFS disk.
".CIFSmount" at the top of each CIFS disk.
I test on ( I'm Linux so..) I test:
1) presence/readability
2) then, since a f/s fault will flip the f/s to read-only, writeability (echo date into it).
How you do this in windows is not my thing...
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On 1/12/2011 3:16 PM, Larry Barber wrote:Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected. Thanks, Larry Barber