Re: {bb} Bb-dftab

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <D0CF470B361DB646881635F38AE189B802BAAEC1@min.macrovision.com> "Kimberly McKinnis" <kmckinnis@macrovision.com> writes:

>I want to monitor disk space on particular partitions, and bb-dftab
>momentarily looked viable. I do not currently monitor disk space at all
>because it would be so many nfs reads. These machines are netbooted and
>I only want to monitor disk space on /var/tmp. Reading the comments in
>bb-deftab.DIST tells me that if I leave out a partition, it will still
>monitor it at the default defined in bb-defclient, and if I define it at
>> 100, it will always be green. To me this says that it will still look
>at the partition though, even if it knows it will always be green. This
>would be bad. Can anyone validate this?

The BB client uses the "df" command to check disk usage. You may be
able to change the DFCMD setting to check only local disks - e.g.
GNU df has a "--local" option that skips NFS-mounted filesystems.


>Note: I do not run bbgen for various reasons, so if it does something
>that would help me, it's still moot.

Not at all. bbgen is purely a BB-server enhancement.


Henrik
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