afsmonitor - Provides instructions for the afsmonitor command
The afsmonitor configuration file determines which machines the
afsmonitor command probes for File Server or Cache Manager statistics
and which statistics it gathers. Use the
-config argument to the
afsmonitor command to identify the configuration file to use.
The instructions that can appear in the configuration file are as follows:
- cm <host name>
- Names a client machine for which to display Cache Manager
statistics. The order of "cm" lines in the file determines the
order in which client machines appear from top to bottom on the
"System Overview" and "Cache Managers" output
screens.
- fs <host name>
- Names a file server machine for which to display File
Server statistics. The order of "fs" lines in the file
determines the order in which file server machines appear from top to
bottom on the "System Overview" and "File Servers"
output screens.
- thresh (fs | cm) <field> <thresh>
[< cmd>] [<arg> ...]
- Assigns the threshold value thresh to the statistic
field, for either a File Server statistic ("fs") or a
Cache Manager statistic ("cm"). The optional cmd field
names a binary or script to execute each time the value of the statistic
changes from being below thresh to being at or above thresh.
A change between two values that both exceed thresh does not
retrigger the binary or script. The optional arg fields are
additional values that the afsmonitor program passes as arguments
to the cmd command. If any of them include one or more spaces,
enclose the entire field in double quotes.
The afsmonitor program passes the following parameters to the
cmd:
<hostname> (fs|cm) <field> <thresh> <actual> [<arg> ...]
The parameters "fs", "cm", <field>,
<thresh>, and <arg> correspond to the values with the same
name on the thresh line. The <hostname> parameter identifies the
file server or client machine where the statistic has crossed the
threshold, and the <actual> parameter is the actual value of
<field> that exceeds the threshold value.
Use the "thresh" line to set either a global threshold, which
applies to all file server machines listed on "fs" lines or
client machines listed on "cm" lines in the configuration file,
or a machine-specific threshold, which applies to only one file server or
client machine.
- •
- To set a global threshold, place the thresh line before any
of the "fs" or "cm" lines in the file.
- •
- To set a machine-specific threshold, place the thresh line
below the corresponding "fs" or "cm" line, and above
any other "fs" or "cm" lines. A machine-specific
threshold value always overrides the corresponding global threshold, if
set. Do not place a "thresh fs" line directly after a
"cm" line or a "thresh cm" line directly after a
"fs" line.
- show (fs | cm) field/group/section
- Specifies which individual statistic, group of statistics,
or section of statistics to display on the "File Servers" screen
("fs") or "Cache Managers" screen ("cm") and
the order in which to display them. The appendix of afsmonitor
statistics in the OpenAFS Administration Guide specifies the
group and section to which each statistic belongs. Include as many
"show" lines as necessary to customize the screen display as
desired, and place them anywhere in the file. The top-to-bottom order of
the "show" lines in the configuration file determines the
left-to-right order in which the statistics appear on the corresponding
screen.
If there are no "show" lines in the configuration file, then the
screens display all statistics for both Cache Managers and File Servers.
Similarly, if there are no "show fs" lines, the "File
Servers" screen displays all file server statistics, and if there are
no "show cm" lines, the "Cache Managers" screen
displays all client statistics.
- # comments
- Precedes a line of text that the afsmonitor program ignores
because of the initial number ("#") sign, which must appear in
the very first column of the line.
- version
- Print the OpenAFS command suite version and then exit.
For a list of the values that can appear in the
field/group/section field
of a "show" instruction, see the
afsmonitor statistics
appendix to the
OpenAFS Administration Guide.
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