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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