[INUG-Users] File space probe

[Gothmolly]

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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:18 PM,  <brad.bueche at wachovia.com> wrote:
> For windows,  you can also just write a perl program that checks the
> filesystem space and sends a trap (NET::SNMP).   You can put this in a
> scheduler or package it as a service.  Or you can use perl (DBD::WMI) to
> monitor the devices remotely (If they are windows) .  DBD::WMI gives you
> an sql interface to all the WMI data.  This is assuming you have an NNM
> probe or an Trap probe to send things too.   Or some kind of probe that
> can consume the type of data you are producing.
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> At my last company we built a large product offering around "agentless"
> monitoring via WMI....although that was written in .NET.  Which is also an
> option.
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> Of course on unix you can put perl on the box.  You might even be able to
> cron a shell script and use the local snmp agent.  Or you could query the
> agent remotely via perl or NNM for that matter....etc.
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> This is all assuming you have an NNM probe or a Trap probe (or some kind
> of probe that can consume the type of data you are producing.) to send
> things too.
> Or, you could just buy something  I guess! :)
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> brad
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> Jacob Steinberger <trefalgar at realitybytes.net>
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> Uh, wha?
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> To my knowledge, there isn't a Netcool product that is agentless that
> does file system monitoring. You'll have to use an agent product like
> Net-SNMP or SSMs to pull the data. They will generate alarms when the
> monitored directory/mount exceeds the configured limit.
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> I'm not sure how else to describe this.
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> Jacob
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> Quoting Larry Roberts <Larry.Roberts at gfs.com>:
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>> I know that mttrapd listens for events but which probe is it that call
> poll?
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>> Thanks!
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>>>>> Jacob Steinberger <trefalgar at realitybytes.net> 5/20/2009 10:57 AM >>>
>> You're probably going to want an agent to do this. Net-SNMP does this
>> out of the box, I would hope the SSMs or whatever they're called now
>> can do it as well.
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>> Jacob
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>> Quoting Larry Roberts <Larry.Roberts at gfs.com>:
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>>> I was wondering if anyone knows of any probes out there that would
>>> monitor file space for a directory?
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>>> Thanks!
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