Re: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

2010-12-09 Thread Brian
--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Brian kimh...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Brian kimh...@yahoo.com Subject: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 10:00 AM I am trying to find a MIB to monitor AutoFS but everything I find is tied to the

RE: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

2010-03-24 Thread Brian
If it spawns a new process each time it mounts a new partition, would it not have a parent process that would at least be constant on the server? If that's the case, maybe you should just monitor the parent process. Otherwise, it would make sense to monitor a partition instead of a pid

Re: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-23 09:00, Brian wrote: I am trying to find a MIB to monitor AutoFS but everything I find is tied to the current pid AutoFS is running under which of course changes each time it is restarted making it useless as a monitoring metric. ??? Isn't that a *good* thing? I'd look at the

RE: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

2010-03-23 Thread James Wu
I am trying to find a MIB to monitor AutoFS but everything I find is tied to the current pid AutoFS is running under which of course changes each time it is restarted making it useless as a monitoring metric. I'm not familiar with autofs but if you do a snmpwalk for OID

Re: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

2010-03-23 Thread Brian
I am trying to find a MIB to monitor AutoFS but everything I find is tied to the current pid AutoFS is running under which of course changes each time it is restarted making it useless as a monitoring metric. ???  Isn't that a *good* thing? I'd look at the restart section of the

RE: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

2010-03-23 Thread Brian
I am trying to find a MIB to monitor AutoFS but everything I find is tied to the current pid AutoFS is running under which of course changes each time it is restarted making it useless as a monitoring metric. I'm not familiar with autofs but if you do a snmpwalk for OID

RE: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

2010-03-23 Thread James Wu
We are using autofs to mount cdrom and dvd iso images. There are nearly 100 of them. Too many to really monitor individually so we wanted to just monitor autofs. It looks to me like each auto.* file in /etc spawns it's own process and pid. And the pid changes each time the daemon is