#492 NetApp plugin question

[Kenneth C. Mazie]

Thomas,
I've just installed your NetApp plugin. It appears to work just fine. There is one minor glitch, this appears to be a NetApp issue, not your plugin since the tools provided by NetApp have the same issue. Disk aggregates display as full, or very close to it. This has the effect of forcing the NetApp device to constantly be in an error state on BigSister. Is there any way to exclude aggregate statistics from the disk status report?

[Thomas Aeby]

Probably my test system did not show aggregates ...

Actually, the quickest way to avoid alarms in this case is to explicitly list the volumes you'd like to have monitored via the "partition" argument:

yournetapp partition=@,Vol0,Vol1,Vol2 disk

This way, only the listed volumes are monitored (you can use multiple "disk" tests against the same host, if you need to specify different thresholds).

You can also use patterns (perl regular expressions), like

yournetapp partition=~Vol.* disk

Best regards,
Tom

[Kenneth C. Mazie]

Tried that syntax but it just came back with "no devices selected to scan". When I just let it try to figure things out on it's own it lists all volumes and aggregates and the volumes are reported as "/vol0/vol1/", etc. Tried that syntax as well, same result. Also tried the regular expression, same result. I figure it's just syntax but i have yet to hit one that makes it happy.

[Thomas Aeby]

Could you please send me a copy of a detail page and your relevant uxmon-net entries. I'll try to figure out, then. When using pattern matches, the "Resource name" column is matched against the given regexp (with not ^$ added). When using a single partition entry or the list syntax, the exact "Resource name" String is going to be matched.

Best regards,
Tom

[Kenneth C. Mazie]

ACK!! kick me. it's sytax. It pays to actually pay attention to what you are typing. I was entering all sorts of things like "partition=@,/vol0/vol0 disk" and "partition=@,vol0 disk" when if you actually pay attention to whats reported by just specifying "disk" what it wants to see is "partition=@,/vol/vol0/ disk". The first "vol" is just "vol", not "vol0" or "/vol0". Once I used the proper syntax it started working.

Thanks for the help anyway....or for the plugin at least.... :-)