--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Brian wrote:
> From: Brian
> Subject: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP
> To: "Debian User"
> 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 current pid
> AutoFS i
> 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
> 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
> > 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
>
> > 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"
> 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
.1.3.6.1.2.1.25
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
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.
Has anyone setup SNMP to monitor AutoFS or a similar type of daemon on a Debain
system
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