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State of Multipathing on Linux

Included in	All Checkmk editions
Source Code License	Open Source
Supported Agents	Linux

This check monitors the state of multipath devices on Linux hosts. For each multipath device at time of inventory the number of paths is put into the check parameters. If later the number of paths is less then expected, the check goes critical. So it does if any of the paths is broken.

If the number of paths is higher than expected, the check goes warning. A re-discovery of the check might be necessary in that case.

This check is based on the output of the command multipath -l as sent by the Linux agent. It correctly deals with various subtle differences between the available versions of the multipath tools.

Item

The UUID of the multipath device, e.g. "360a980004334644d654a364469555a76". Via inventory_multipath_rules you can specify wether an alias should be used as item instead of the UUID. If the multipath device has an alias the alias will be used as item.

Discovery

One service is created for each multipath device.