Re: [Proposal] control storage systems

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> I read that IBM plans for its management software, Tivoli, to support
> monitoring of file/storage systems.
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-960724.html?tag=cd_mh
>
> This seems like an interesting idea for monit as well, kind of a next
> natural evolutionary step for monit's ability. From the top off my
> head I was thinking along the lines in the monit controlfile:
>
> if filesystem /usr/doc/* is > 90% then alert address@hidden
> if filesystem /dev/hda1 > 90% then alert address@hidden
>
> if filesystem /dev/hda1 > 90% then 
>   remove temporary files {*.bak, core, *.trc, *.tmp, *~ }
>
> Other suggestions?
>
> What do you think?
>
>  
Yeah, it will be excellent, if monit could watch diskspace too (and 
maybe other stuff such as general process table). In combination with 
some other features such as optional output format from monit http (for 
example plaintext/xml/etc.) it can be secure and more powerfull 
replacement for all dangerous SNMP implementations. I think that if such 
features will be in place, monit could be in the future accepted by big 
vendors as SNMP alternative. There could be console (managment 
station/system) that can fetch and manage all needed parameters from 
monit nodes through http and in  the case of central configuration 
source manage all those instances too (but it is maybe prety far in the 
future). Due to modular architecture it could be easy to extent monit by 
another optional modules (for example for SW/HW vendors).

I think the above syntax is good (only the asterisk in "/usr/doc/*" can 
maybe be avoided :)

+1 to above syntax

Cheers,
Martin