bdf/system check scripts

[Joanne Joki_1]

I had a great idea to write a a script that would go out each day and report back to me via email file systems that we 70% and above ... then I got to thinking that someone out that surely has had this idea before and probably has written a nice system check scripts they wouldn't mind sharing .... do any of you have such a script or know of such a utility?

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Joanne,

Here's a link to the "favorite scripts" thread - think there's one in there.
And it contains pointers to other sources as well.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x026250011d20d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Should be able to find one here I would think.

HTH,
Jeff

[S.K. Chan]

This is one of the best out there ..

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xcae0f9beca68d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Joanne,

I was interested in a script to tell me which filesystems were changing size. Hence the attached script, ckfssize. It also reports filesystems over 90% full (if not already listed).

Simply running it from cron will have it mailed to you on the local host. That's all I cared to do. You could capture it's output to a file and email that. Or perhaps pipe the output to mail.

My next reply will have attached the script that creates my "baseline" file, mkbaseline.

Darrell

[Darrell Allen]

The afore-mentioned mkbaseline script.

Darrell

[Tony Rose]

Here is a quick script that I run each day that gives bdf as well as some other information on a mail server.

[Fred Martin_1]

I have a setup, where the root cron runs every 15 mins, the attached script.

It has two user-definable thresholds, one for non-critical file systems that can go pretty high, and one for critical systems like /var that I want to keep lower.

If a threshold is met, several things happen.

First, it sends email to my pager. It does this until the problem is fixed.

Second, it sends an email to an alias, a list of admins. The mail is only sent once, however, since email to four people every 15 minutes would only add to disk space problems :) I use a file as a flag for that - if the file exists no more mail is sent.