Ok well in case anyone else is wondering, here's the solution I came up with:# cat /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_io.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl# author: alex harvey
# email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# definitionsuse constant OK => 0;
use constant WARNING => 1;use constant CRITICAL => 2;
# read in config file
req
Alexander Harvey wrote:
> That doesn't look like a Solaris script to me but as far as your coding is
> concerned, my thoughts are
>
[ excellent and non-disputed points removed ]
> (iv) for security you ought to use full paths to all of your binaries:
> i.e.
> /usr/bin/echo
> instead of
> echo
>
Alex,Thanks for the info ... sorry I wasn't any help to you but I came out learning a lot! :-)AugustOn 10/16/06, Alexander Harvey <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:That doesn't look like a Solaris script to me but as far as your coding is concerned, my thoughts are
(i) get yourself a book on the k-shell '
That doesn't look like a Solaris script to me but as far as your coding is concerned, my thoughts are(i) get yourself a book on the k-shell 'cause it's a lot more powerful that the bourne (/bin/sh) shell.(ii) you can say
vmstat -dp | awk '/sda/ {print $2}' instead ofvmstat -dp | grep sda | awk '{pr
Hi Alexander and list folks,I set up two little shell scripts for disk i/o calculations for mrtg which i hope to use for nagios down the track. I'm still learning shell scripting /nagios / etc so i welcome corrections to my logic, coding, anything! :-)
It's not really fancy, just uses vmstat to get
Hi All,I wonder if anyone out there is using Nagios to monitor disk I/O on UNIX servers and if so I'm curious as to how they're doing it, what plugins they're using, are they calling iostat from a shell script? What options of iostat are they calling etc?
Many thanks in advance,Alex HarveyUNIX Admi
