Question
list Jeff Newman
Hi, New to hobbit/bb and have a question. I have a bunch of AIX hosts, and for whatever dumb reason, AIX doesn't have a df switch to do local directories only. I looked into installing GNU df, but in the hobbit configuration files, the "DF" settings say that they don't do anything. I was able to find stuff on excluding directories from RRD, but nothing on excluding filesystems from even being monitored by hobbit. I even tried setting "/CDREL 101 102" in the client configuration file on the server, stopped/started server but still have a red alert on that filesystem. So my question is, how can I exclude a filesystem from being monitored in hobbit? NFS or not, is there a way to simply say "hobbit just totally forget you even know /foo exists period" :-) Thanks, Jeff
list Henrik Størner
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:17:29PM -0600, Jeff Newman wrote:
Hi, New to hobbit/bb and have a question. I have a bunch of AIX hosts, and for whatever dumb reason, AIX doesn't have "DF" settings say that they don't do anything.
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So my question is, how can I exclude a filesystem from being monitored in hobbit? NFS or not, is there a way to simply say "hobbit just totally forget you even know /foo exists period" :-)
Two ways that I can think of:
1) Modify the client script that runs on your AIX boxes, so it doesn't
report those filesystems. The script that collects the disk info
is the ~hobbit/client/hobbitclient-aix.sh script; you'll see it is
a fairly simple shell script. You can easily apply some filtering code
to the "df" output to leave out certain filesystems, e.g.
df | grep -v "^/foo"
will remove all lines beginning with "/foo".
2) Keep the client script as is, and setup the hobbit-clients.cfg file
to allow 100% utilisation for these filesystems. There's and example
of that in the commented-out part of that file, but it basically is
HOST=aix.foo.com
DISK /foo 101 101
You can combine this with the NORRDDISKS setting in hobbitserver.cfg
if you also want to drop these filesystem from the disk graphs.
Regards,
Henrik