EMS disk monitoring

[Niraj_2]

Hi,

Can Event monitoring service on HP-UX 11i monitor disk space ? If yes, how can I configure the thresholds (e.g. 90% critical alarm, 75% warning, 65% cancel trap etc) to trigger events.

I checked the Disk Monitor Events data sheet but could not find a suitable event which suggests that the disk space is getting full.

br,Niraj.

[Hoefnix]

Hi,

EMS is used for Hardware monitoring.
To monitor filesystem usage you can build your own script with tools like bdf or df.
Or you can implement a monitoring tool like OpenView. (or Big Brother)

HTH,
Peter

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
You cannot Monitor a disk Space Usage with EMS.
You need a script for the same
Regards,

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

And here is such a script. Check the comments because you might want ot make a few adjustments. For example this only monitors the machine it is run on. However, if you comment out the relevant bits, you can monitor several machines from one server. There is an example config file in the comments at the top too.

It alerts to Openview but that can be changed by altering the $ALERT variable.

Any problems youc an e-mail me. You'll finf how to do that if you do actually read the comments :)

[Andrew Merritt_2]

Yes, you can do this, but you need the HPUX High Availability (HA) Monitors to do this, which are an add-on.

See the documentation on "Monitoring System Resources" in http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B5735-90001/B5735-90001.html

The general page is http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/ha/index.html#Event%20Monitoring%20Service%20and%20HA%20Monitors

You should be able to find out costs and download information at http://www.software.hp.com/ under High Availablity, but when I looked just now to give a more precise link the server was temporarily down.