Zabbix NFS monitoring

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How would you monitor response of mounted NFS directory with Zabbix? I'm thinking about something like

$ time /bin/ls -U /path/to/nfs

(I think the output from nfsstat(8) relates less with user experience.)

You can probably wrap it in bash, a la https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13356628/how-to-redirect-the-output-of-the-time-command-to-a-file-in-linux — rogerdpack, Sep 24 '18 at 15:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '15 at 23:57

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I'd use ioping... But I probably wouldn't monitor NFS performance at that layer, but rather from the NFS server itself, as most causes of user experience issues would ultimately be rooted in networking or the host server.

answered Dec 02 '15 at 23:57

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Sometimes NFS server isn't yours and you want to monitor client experience. – Dmitry Verkhoturov Dec 03 '15 at 10:41
Maybe, but that wasn't communicated by the OP. – ewwhite Dec 03 '15 at 12:56
Well, both of you are right :-) – nodakai Dec 03 '15 at 14:37

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '15 at 18:45

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Try to have a look on available Zabbix solutions: http://monitoringartist.github.io/zabbix-searcher/#nfs

answered Dec 03 '15 at 18:45

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This is not really what I was looking for, but great source of information. – nodakai Dec 04 '15 at 03:54

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 02 '16 at 23:08

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Are you talking about availability or utilization?

Use iostat to monitor NFS utilization:

Ubuntu/Debian:

apt-get install sysstat
nfsiostat 1 100

or Redhat/Centos:

yum install sysstat
iostat -xn 1 100

edited Nov 02 '16 at 23:08

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answered Nov 02 '16 at 18:00

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Zabbix NFS monitoring

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