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[Jim T. <tr...@us...>]

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--- NEW FILE: README.snmpdiskspace.monitor ---
# NAME
#  snmpdiskspace.monitor
#
#
# SYNOPSIS
#  snmpdiskspace.monitor [--list] [--timeout seconds] [--config filename]
#                        [--community string] [--free minfree] 
#                        [--retries retries] [--usemib <mibtype>] host...
#
#
# DESCRIPTION
#  This script uses the Host Resources MIB (RFC1514), and optionally
#  the MS Windows NT Performance MIB, or UCD-SNMP extensions
#  (enterprises.ucdavis.dskTable.dskEntry) to monitor diskspace on hosts
#  via SNMP.
#
#  snmpdiskspace.monitor uses a config file to allow the specification of
#  minimum free space on a per-host and per-partition basis. The config 
#  file allows the use of regular expressions, so it is quite flexible in
#  what it can allow. See the sample config file for more details and
#  syntax.
#
#  The script only checks disks marked as "FixedDisks" by the Host MIB,
#  which should help cut down on the number of CD-ROM drives 
#  erroneously reported as being full! Since the drive classification
#  portion of the UCD Host MIB isn't too great on many OS'es, though,
#  this won't buy you a lot. Empire's SNMP agent gets this right on
#  all the hosts that I checked, though. Not sure about the MS MIB.
#  UCD-SNMP only checks specific partition types (md, hd, sd, ida)
# 
#  snmpdiskspace.monitor is intended for use as a monitor for the mon
#  network monitoring package.
#
#
# OPTIONS
#  --community   The SNMP community string to use. Default is "public".
#  --config      The config file to use. Default is either 
#                /etc/mon/snmpdiskspace.cf or 
#                /usr/lib/mon/mon.d/snmpdiskspace.cf, in that order.
#  --retries     The number of retries to use, if we get an SNMP timeout.
#                Default is retry 5 times.
#  --timeout     Seconds to wait before declaring a timeout on an SNMP get.
#                Default is 20 seconds.
#  --free        The default minimum free space, in a percentage or absolute
#                quantity, as per the config file. Thus, arguments of, for
#                example, "20%", "1gb", "50mb" are all valid.
#                Default is 5% free on every partition checked.
#
#  --ifree       The default minimum free inode percentage, specified as
#                a percentage.  Default is 5% free.
#
#  --list        Give a verbose listing of all partitions checked on all 
#                specified hosts.
#
#  --listall     like --list, but also lists the thresholds defined for
#                each filesystem, so you can doublecheck the config file
#
#  --usemib      Choose which MIB to use: one or more of host, perf, ucd
#                Default tries all three, in that order
#
#  --debug       enable debug output for config file parsing and MIB fetching
#
#
# EXIT STATUS
#  Exit status is as follows:
#    0     No problems detected.
#    1     Free space on any host was below the supplied parameter.
#    2     A "soft" error occurred, either a SNMP library error, 
#          or could not get a response from the server. 
#
#  In the case where both a soft error and a freespace violation are
#  detected, exit status is 1.
#
# BUGS
# When using the net-snmp agent, you must build it with "--with-dummy-values"
# or the monitor may not parse the Host Resources MIB properly.
#
# List of local filesystem types used when parsing the UCD MIB should be
# configurable.
#
#
# NOTES
# $Id: README.snmpdiskspace.monitor,v 1.2 2007/05/03 11:25:04 trockij Exp $
#
#  * Added support for inode status via UCD-SNMP MIB.  Fourth column in config
#  file (optional) is for inode%.
#  * added --debug and --usemib options.  Latter needed so you can force use
#  of UCD mib if you want inode status.
#  * rearranged the error messages to be more Mon-like (hostname first)
#  * added code to synchronize instance numbers when using UCD MIB.  This
#  could solve the "sparse MIB" problem usually fixed by the
#  --with-dummy-values option in net-snmp if needed for other agents
#  Ed Ravin (er...@pa...), January 2005
#
#  Added support for regex hostnames and partition names in the config file,
#  'use strict' by andrew ryan <an...@na...>.
#
#  Generalised to handle multible mibs by jens persson <jen...@bt...>
#  Changes Copyright (C) 2000, jens persson
#
#  Modified for use with UCD-SNMP by Johannes Walch for 
#  NWE GmbH (j....@nw...)
#
#  Support for UCD's disk MIB added by Matt Simonsen <ma...@ca...>
#
#
# SEE ALSO
#  mon: http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/
#
#  This requires the UCD SNMP library and G.S. Marzot's Perl SNMP
#  module. (http://ucd-snmp.ucdavis.edu and CPAN, respectively).
#
#  The Empire SystemEdge SNMP agent: http://www.empire.com