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(Nagios-compatible probes to monitor AFS servers)
Maintained by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Please see the section LICENSE below for more information.
afs-monitor provides Nagios-compatible probe scripts that can be used to monitor AFS servers. It contains five scripts: check_afs_quotas, which monitors AFS volumes for quota usage; check_afs_space, which monitors file server partitions for disk usage; check_afs_bos, which monitors any bosserver-managed set of processes for problems reported by bos; check_afs_rxdebug, which monitors AFS fileservers for connections waiting for a thread; and check_afs_udebug, which monitors Ubik services (such as vlserver and ptserver) for replication and quorum problems.
This is a collection of Nagios plugin scripts for monitoring various aspects of AFS servers. They all follow the Nagios standards for check_* scripts (although don't support a few features) and use exit statuses that give Nagios the right information. They don't use any Nagios-specific libraries, however, and should be suitable for use with other monitoring systems such as mon. Any monitoring system that understands remote checks for services should be able to use these scripts with some adaptation.
check_afs_quotas checks either a single volume or all volumes on a server or server partition for quota usage and reports errors or warnings if the used space is over a configurable threshold.
check_afs_space uses vos partinfo to check the available space on each partition on a file server. It reports a critical error if the percentage used is above a configurable threshold (90% by default) and a warning if it is above a lower configurable threshold (85% by default).
check_afs_bos runs bos status on a file server or volume location server and scans the output, making sure that all commands are running normally and the file server isn't salvaging. If it sees any output it doesn't expect from bos status, it reports that output in an alert.
check_afs_rxdebug runs rxdebug against a file server and looks for any client connections that are in the state "waiting for a thread." This indicates client connections that are blocked waiting for a file server thread. We've found this to be a reliable test for detecting serious file server performance problems. It reports a critical error if the count of such connections is above a configurable level (8 by default) and a warning if it is above a lower configurable threshold (2 by default).
check_afs_udebug runs udebug against a ubik service (vlserver, ptserver, kaserver, or buserver) and makes sure that it is in a reasonable state. It checked to be sure that there is a sync site for the service, and when there is, that the sync site believes that the recovery state is 1f (indicating that all of the slaves have the same version of the database).
These scripts were written by Xueshan Feng, Neil Crellin, Quanah Gibson-Mount, and Russ Allbery and are currently maintained by Russ Allbery. Many modifications to the scripts were based on work by Steve Rader.
All the plugin scripts are written in Perl and should work with Perl 5.006 or later. They require the AFS client binaries (specifically vos, bos, rxdebug, and udebug) and expect them to be in either /usr/bin or in /usr/local/bin.
check_afs_quotas and check_afs_space will use Number::Format, if available, to format sizes with IEC 60027 prefixes.
All that's required for installation is to copy the check_* scripts into whatever directory you want to use for Nagios probes and modify the first lines of the scripts as necessary if your Perl binary isn't in /usr/bin/perl. If your AFS client binaries aren't in the expected places, you may also need to modify the top of each script to provide a different set of paths to search.
You can then use the scripts directly with commands such as:
check_afs_space -H afs1
To use the scripts in a Nagios probe, configure a command such as:
define command {
command_name check_afs_space
command_line /path/to/install/check_afs_space -H $HOSTADDRESS$
}
changing the path to the script to wherever you installed the scripts. You can of course pass additional options here, including making use of arguments to the command in the service check definition using $ARG1$ and so forth.
The scripts all have default timeouts and check_afs_space and check_afs_rxdebug have default thresholds that you may want to change. You may also want to look at the regexes for acceptable bos status lines in check_afs_bos; for example, if you want to get a warning whenever your file server has a core file, you will want to modify the regex to not filter that out.
The afs-monitor web page at:
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/afs-monitor/
will always have the current version of this package, the current documentation, and pointers to any additional resources.
I welcome bug reports and patches for this package at eagle@eyrie.org. However, please be aware that I tend to be extremely busy and work projects often take priority. I'll save your mail and get to it as soon as I can, but it may take me a couple of months.
afs-monitor is maintained using Git. You can access the current source by cloning the repository at:
git://git.eyrie.org/afs/afs-monitor.git
or view the repository via the web at:
http://git.eyrie.org/?p=afs/afs-monitor.git
When contributing modifications, patches (possibly generated by git-format-patch) are preferred to Git pull requests.
The afs-monitor distribution as a whole is covered by the following copyright statement and license:
Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This means that you may choose between the two licenses that Perl is released under: the GNU GPL and the Artistic License. Please see your Perl distribution for the details and copies of the licenses.
All individual files are released under this license or a license that is compatible with it. Files that are released under a compatible license will have that license noted at the start of the file. Some files may have additional copyright holders as noted in those files.
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