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Getting alert when available disk space is reducing quickly
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:10 am
by vusaravi
Hi
I would like to get an alert when available disk space on my windows machine has been reduced by 10 GB in last 1 hour irrespective of the threshold.
Is it possible with Nagios?
Thanks in Advance.
Regard,
Ravi Kumar Vusa.
Re: Getting alert when available disk space is reducing quic
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:54 am
by mcapra
This is something you could certainly do within Nagios Core with the assistance of a third-party database (InfluxDB, MySQL, flat-file, SQLite, etc) but there's no simple solution or ready-made plugin that I know of. This would be a bit easier done with
Nagios XI where a time-series database already exists and already collects the provided performance data for every
compliant plugin, which would make writing a plugin to check trends over a period of time much easier.
Nagios Core is constructed much more in the style of black-box monitoring. What you're asking for is more in the style of white-box monitoring.
I'm a fan of how this Coursera video explains the differences between the two strategies:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/it-autom ... monitoring
Re: Getting alert when available disk space is reducing quic
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:01 pm
by cdienger
Hi Ravi,
Did the above help with what you're looking to achieve? Let us know if you have any further questions regarding this.
Re: Getting alert when available disk space is reducing quic
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:34 pm
by tacolover101
@mcapra is correct - you could do something like this with a flat file, but you'd need to get creative on your scripting / handling of persistent variables.
a simple way to accomplish this would be with a flat file, and a check running every 60m writing to it - then comparing the data from what it sees between now and last check.
Re: Getting alert when available disk space is reducing quic
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:12 pm
by tacolover101
you could even bring that data into nagios log server for a good comparison
Re: Getting alert when available disk space is reducing quic
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:38 am
by cdienger