NFS mount monitoring by SysEdge

[Joseph Poutre]

Has anyone out there used SysEdge to monitor the existence of an NFS mount point?
We had a situation where a process relied on files in an NFS mount, that mount was dropped on the server, and therefore the process failed.

I have been working with CA Support on this, but as ever I am hopeful that someone else out there has come up with a clever idea on detecting if an NFS mount is present and accessible.

We use VAIM to configure our SysEdge agents, so this would naturally be the preferred source of such monitoring. If you've set it up directly in the sysedge.cf file I can also work with that.

 

Thank you,

Joe Poutre

[Matthew_Gay]

Hi Joe,

 

You can configure the "File Systems" to be monitored through Spectrum.

If you go the SystemEDGE model -> System Resources -> File Systems

Find the NFS Mount in the list. 

Click Monitor File System.

Note the check box at the bottom for "Alarm if offline".

 

It will create the 0xc40060 alarm when offline.

You can also configure the disk thresholds there to monitor the disk space/usage.

 

Let me know if you are looking for something different here.

 

-Matt

[Joseph Poutre]

Thanks to CA Support I am able to do this in VAIM using an autowatcher Template.

Object Class of devTableEntry

Object Attribute to devAllocatedSpace

Set the Instance Criteria Regex like this: \/topdir\/subdir

Set it to the mount pount.

Instance Criteria Match Type to Positive

Threshold Configuration to whatever alarm level you want, with Operator "Equal To", Value 0, Scale 1, Sample Type "Absolute Value".

Under Watcher Settings set the Loss Action to the level of alarm you want.

Then deploy to the server or servers where you need to monitor the mount point.