topic Re: Monitoring disk space usage in Operating System - HP-UX

Monitoring disk space usage

B. Jen — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:48:16 GMT

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.

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

paolo barila — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:51:58 GMT

Hi,

start with

# bdf

# du -akx | sort -n

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:53:25 GMT

You can try this:

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

Or create a shell script based on bdf.

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Kent Ostby — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:23:50 GMT

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

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Mark Greene_1 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:49:28 GMT

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

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Sยภเl Kย๓คг — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:13:28 GMT

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

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Geoff Wild — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:27:17 GMT

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

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Paul Sperry — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:22:49 GMT

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

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Paul Sperry — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:24:02 GMT

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

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Paul Sperry — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:30:49 GMT

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

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Arturo Galbiati — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:37:49 GMT

Hi

bdf|awk -v PCT=90 'NR==1||substr($5,1,index($5,"%")-1)+0>=PCT'|mailx -s "Mountpoint over PCT" yourmailaddress

This will sent you by email all mount point over the PCT (in this case 90%).

HTH,
Art

Re: Monitoring disk space usage

Deepak.R — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:07:01 GMT

Hi ,

Paul`s suggestion looks good,

make use of bdf output and write a script which will mail you alerts.

also you can monitor inides usage by bdf -i

thanks
deepak