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Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

sysadm_1 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:21:51 GMT

Hi gurus,
What is the best way to monitor hp-ux disk usage?.I have 50 plus hp-ux servers.It is not practical to login in all servers and check the disk usaage daily.Currently I am using Big brother for this.I am seaching for a hp solution which should send me alert when any of the filesystem reaches 90%.Please help.

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Aneesh Mohan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:25:29 GMT

Hi,

I feel the better way to do this using HP Openview Operations Software.

Thanks,
Aneesh

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Jeeshan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:10:25 GMT

or, you can use shell or perl script for email notification of file system usage. check this link

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=78542

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Rasheed Tamton — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:20:30 GMT

Hi,

You can use very simple one like this:

bdf | awk ' / 9[0-9]%/ {print $NF}'|xargs bdf|mailx -s "bdf from `hostname`" username@abcd.com

Here it is looking for any file system above 90% and will mail it with the name of the file system with hostname in the subject line. You can setup it on cron two three times per a day as per your system file usage.

rgds.

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Srimalik — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:00:34 GMT

Try Storage Foundation Management, Free of cost its and its a beauty once it starts working.

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

sysadm_1 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:31:22 GMT

thanks for the replies.

srikishan,
yo are talking about Veritas Storage Foundation Manager ?.Let me check it.

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Srimalik — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:31:27 GMT

yes, The veritas storage foundation manager.

http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=sfms

It also has centralized alerting(email, SNMP trap).

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Bill Hassell — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:01:47 GMT

Be very careful using bdf. It has a very annoying behavior where long source paths for filesystems will cause split lines and mess up any scripting. Almost all NFS or Samba/CIFS shared filesystems will exhibit this problem.

Use the attached bdfmegs script. bdfmegs will never split a line and can report in MB or GB. You'll find the -P and -q options very useful. For example:

bdfmegs -qP 95

will show all filesystems that are 95% full or more. The -q leaves off the header so scripting is easier. Just store bdfmegs on each server and then run the script on each server with ssh and capture the result. Here are the options:

Usage: bdfmegs [ -glPpqstvu ] [ dir(s) or file(s) ]
where:
-g = gigabytes rather than megabytes
-l = local only (not NFS)
-p ## = highlight pct -ge ##
-P ## = same as -p but show only pct -ge ##
-q = suppress the header line and no char enhancements
-s = summary of total, used and available
-t xxxx = specifc filesystem (hfs vxfs nfs cdfs cifs autofs DevFS)
-u = usage details (return code = 0, usage text to stdout)
-v = verbose (shows FSversion, largefiles flag)
(requires read permission for mountpoint)

File(s) or dirpath(s) may be specified to limit
the output of bdfmegs as in:

bdfmegs -vlg /usr/contrib/bin /var/tmp

If bdfmegs is run as bdfgigs (ie, a link), then -g is default.

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Kenan Erdey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:47:39 GMT

Hi,

Not hp but what about using nagios. it can send e-mail and sms.

http://www.nagios.org/

Kenan.

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Arturo Galbiati — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:22:13 GMT

Hi,
you can use the diskspace script by B.Hassel.
I attache dit for your use.
HTH,
Art

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Steve Post — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:12:20 GMT

If you know perl, I have a perl script that has worked fine for me for the last 8 years.
It pages me if the filesystems get over a certain threshhold. But it won't page me every 5 minutes until it is fixed.
It uses bdf command and knows about the file line breaks.
It's probably not the most pretty thing.

But it works.
I'm not going to make the 269 line script generic unless you want it. Then I'll post it here.
....hmm...it there a place where people post SIMPLE scripts?

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Ivan Krastev — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:16:23 GMT

Nagios is ported for HP-UX as a part of Internet Express package - http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/cache/324414-0-0-0-121.html

regards,
ivan

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Jonathan E. Deady — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:33:34 GMT

sysadmin,

I understand you want to use an HP product however I would recommend looking at Nagios. I admin between 120 and 150 servers which run HP-UX 11i v1/v2 /CentOS(Linux Distro)/RedHat Enterprise Linux. It was a nightmare of scripts and cron jobs and sed/awd; expect, perl etc, etc. Until I got involved with this Open Source Tool. Installing it can be done in twenty or thirty minutes although adding your hosts and configuring the plugins and alerts takes considerable time initially you won't be sorry afterward. Believe me.

Regards,

Jonathan

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

kirkkak — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:47:19 GMT

You may also check Zabbix as alternative for Nagios/Cacti

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

Steve Post — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:16:31 GMT

You could also try the checkfs monitoring system.

Re: Best way for flesystem monitoring in hp-ux

sysadm_1 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:18:09 GMT

Thans you very much.