Monitoring disk space usage

[B. Jen]

Hi, I am new to HP-UX. Is there a way to monitor the disk usage. When the free disk space is below certain level, send us an email alert. Thank you for answers.

[paolo barila]

Hi,

start with

# bdf

# du -akx | sort -n

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can try this:

http://directory.fsf.org/diskfree.html

Or create a shell script based on bdf.

[Kent Ostby]

Bernard --

There are several HP products that will do monitoring and send you email.

EMS is one.

You can find out more information about it here:

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8678BA:B7612-90009

[Mark Greene_1]

Run this:

/etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig

and you can setup monitoring that will e-mail the results. You can setup a mail alias in /etc/mail/aliases to point to an external mail address, provided you have sendmail or something similar running point to a pop3 mail server.

mark

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

Hi,

bdf, df, du are most of the commands which can help you to monitor the file stems manually. How ever you can make use of EMS to report the statistics.

And also there are many freewares available in net like "Big Brother" which helps you to give graphical display alerts. Better try it, it's good tool

Regards,
Sunil

[Geoff Wild]

If you can't afford OVO - then Big Brother may be for you (we use as a backup to OVO):

http://www.bb4.org/

Rgds...Geoff

[Paul Sperry]

I use the free version of bigbrother to monitor all of my servers disk usage (unix and windows). It also monitors my oracle and sql servers and many other services.
you cand download it and check it out more here:

http://bb4.org

[Paul Sperry]

I use the free version of bigbrother to monitor all of my servers disk usage (unix and windows). It also monitors my oracle and sql servers and many other services.
you can download it and check it out more here:

http://bb4.org

[Paul Sperry · Accepted solution]

here is a script we run via cron.
If the disk usage is above 89% I get paged.
Could easily be change to send email to me
just change techpgr@domain.com to mylogin@domain.com


#!/usr/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/bdf -l | grep -iv filesystem |
awk '{if (NF!=1){if (NF==5){print $4"\t" $5"\t"}
else{print $5"\t\t" $6"\t"}}}' |
sed 's/'%'/''/' > /tmp/bdf_info
#
function check {
while read percent dir
do
if [[ $percent -ge 89 ]] ; then
echo "File system full-`hostname`:$dir is at $percent%" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Server disks" t
echpgr@domain.com
fi
done
} < /tmp/bdf_info

check
rm /tmp/bdf_info