Hobbit & NetApp: can client check DISK look at NFS mounts? 🔗 link

I have several Network Appliance filers, and am trying to get Hobbit to
monitor them. Since I can't run Hobbit client directly on the filer, my next
approach was to run Hobbit client on the NetApp admin host, and list all the
NetApp volumes which are NFS-mounted. But the DISK check seems to be
ignoring NFS mounts.

Questions:
1. Is there a way to have DISK un-ignore selected NFS mounts?
2. Are there some other clever ways to have Hobbit monitor a NetApp filer?

Thank you,
David

David Mostardi
Advisory Systems Manager
Elsevier MDL 
2440 Camino Ramon, Suite XXX
San Ramon CA XXXXX
XXX.XXX.XXXX
www.mdl.com <www.mdl.com>

You can use hobbit_perl_client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/
One of the 3 script is done to monitor netapp filers via rsh (I'm
monitoring 10 netapp storage with it).
It check status, cluster, environment and temperature, disk and inode,
transfer and ops/s (via sysstat), cifs operation/s, snapshot space,
space used by the newest and oldest snapshot, snapmirror transfer, qtree
quotas and user quotas. Disk, inode, cpu and temperature can be graphed
directly by hobbit. Sysstat can be graphed using ncv and to have graphs
for snapmirror/snapshot/quotas you've to patch hobbit 4.2 source with
the included patch (this will also remove the necessity to configure ncv
for the other tests because they're included in the patch).
If you need help to setup or more info feel free ask :D
 Francesco
 

	From: Mostardi, David (MDL US) [mailto:user-8e308a8a27b0@xymon.invalid] 	Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:14 PM
	To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
	Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit & NetApp: can client check DISK look at
NFS mounts?

	
	
	I have several Network Appliance filers, and am trying to get
Hobbit to monitor them. Since I can't run Hobbit client directly on the
filer, my next approach was to run Hobbit client on the NetApp admin
host, and list all the NetApp volumes which are NFS-mounted. But the
DISK check seems to be ignoring NFS mounts.

	Questions: 	1. Is there a way to have DISK un-ignore selected NFS mounts? 	2. Are there some other clever ways to have Hobbit monitor a
NetApp filer? 
	Thank you, 	David 
	David Mostardi 	Advisory Systems Manager 	Elsevier MDL 	2440 Camino Ramon, Suite XXX 	San Ramon CA XXXXX 	XXX.XXX.XXXX 	www.mdl.com

Mostardi, David (MDL US) wrote:

Try this script:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/

It works very well.  Francesco Duranti wrote those and he is on this 
mailing list, so you can post your questions about it here.

Tom

Use bb-xsnmp on deadcat.

From: "Mostardi, David  (MDL US)" <user-8e308a8a27b0@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:13:40 +0100
To: "'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'" <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit & NetApp: can client check DISK look at NFS mounts?

I have several Network Appliance filers, and am trying to get Hobbit to
monitor them. Since I can't run Hobbit client directly on the filer, my next
approach was to run Hobbit client on the NetApp admin host, and list all the
NetApp volumes which are NFS-mounted. But the DISK check seems to be
ignoring NFS mounts.

Questions: 1. Is there a way to have DISK un-ignore selected NFS mounts?
2. Are there some other clever ways to have Hobbit monitor a NetApp filer?

Thank you, David 
David Mostardi Advisory Systems Manager
Elsevier MDL 2440 Camino Ramon, Suite XXX
San Ramon CA XXXXX XXX.XXX.XXXX www.mdl.com <www.mdl.com>

	Questions: 	1. Is there a way to have DISK un-ignore selected NFS mounts?   

By default NFS mounts are ignored. I got around this by specifying the NFS mount dir in my hobbit-clients.cfg

HOST=host-with-nfs-mounts.com
      DISK /someNFSmount 95 98
      DISK /someotherNFSmount 95 98

Hobbit then displayed these.

-Charles