Re: host-resources disk usage in bytes

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/01/07, Deon van der Merwe <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to net-snmp disk usage percentage is: 78.20%
> Different than df, but df is also strange...
> [dvdm@kaus] df -B4096
> Filesystem           4K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3              8517017   6661036   1423331  83% /
>
> Again it reports 83% use, but if you do the calculation yourself you
> get: 78.20% which is the same as net-snmp... but what about this 83%
> then?

Traditionally, Unix filesystems have reserved a small percentage of the
disk for "root-only" activity.  This is therefore not available for general use.
You'll note that User+Available = 8084367,  which is not the same as the
total size.
     6661036/8084367 = 82.3%


> Turns out that "used" (for both df and netsnmp) is the "files bytes
> used".  The percentage calculated by df is done with the "inode bytes
> used".

Unlikely.  (See above)



> The question then: is there any place where net-snmp will report the
> "inode bytes used"?  Should the "HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed" be
> changed to also include the inode size usage?

You can't report two values in one variable.
You'd need a separate variable to monitor inode usage.

Now it would be perfectly possible to extend the hrStorageTable to cover
inode usage as well - that would fit within the semantics of this table.

But I don't think that would actually address your problem.
The answer is to consider 95% (8084367/8517017) as representing
a "completely full" disk, and setting your warning thresholds accordingly.

Dave

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