topic Mount directory in Operating System - HP-UX

Mount directory

ivychung2 — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:52:01 GMT

I have a system mount from host B and host A , sometimes when I reboot the server , they are disconnect , I need to mount it manually , but sometimes I forgot to do it , how can I make sure they are mount , eg . a checking of the mount is vaild or not , if it is not mount , it will send me a mail , is it possible ? please advise .

Re: Mount directory

Peter Godron — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:55:57 GMT

Hi,
please read :
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

0 points for 33 answers !

possible solution:
nfs softmount, then after some time check whether mount point is valid and send email

Re: Mount directory

RAC_1 — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:58:37 GMT

Before you mount it, use script. This script will mount it, if it is not mounted, else give alert that it is mounted. Another option is to use automount.
Script like follows. (Not tested)

mount_a='servera:/dir1'
mount_b='serverb:/dir2'
mount_pt1='/some_dir1'
mount_pt='/some_dir2'

mount -p | grep '\/some_dir1'
if [$? -eq 0];then
echo "already mounted"
else
mount -F nfs servera:/dir1 /some_dir1
fi

Re: Mount directory

Yogeeraj_1 — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:06:49 GMT

hi,

after mounting your remote systems, you should have made it permanent by modifying your fstab accordingly so that it woould be mounted automatically next time you restart your server.

if you are not sure, use SAM -> Networking and Communications->Networked File Systems -> Mounted Remote File Systems

and mount your remote file systems!

hope this helps!

yogeeraj

Re: Mount directory

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:16:29 GMT

Using scripting is good.

#!/bin/ksh
mount_list="/tmp/mnt1 /tmp/mnt2"
set -A mount ${mount_list}

index=0

while [[ ${index} -lt ${#mount[*]} ]]
do

mount -p | grep -wEq "${mount[$index]}"
if [[ ${?} -eq 0 ]]
then
echo "Mount ${mount[$index]} is available"
else
echo "Mount ${mount[$index]} is not available" | mailx -s "Error: Mount" userid@domainname.com
fi

let index=index+1
done

Note: You can add mount hostA:/exportfs /mount will work too.

--
Muthu