Check manual page of zfsget
ZFS Pools/Filesystems: Used Space
| Distribution | Official part of Checkmk |
|---|---|
| License | GPLv2 |
| Supported Agents | Linux Solaris Freebsd |
zfsget. This is done in a separate check since
the output of df does not show the required metrics when ZFS
is used with quotas.The check is fully compatible with df with respect to its configuration,
output and logic. Please refer to the manual of df for details.
ZFS has some specialities when compared with "normal" filesystems. From
the point of view of monitoring the crucial difference is that several
filesystems live together in a common "pool". Each of the filesystems
has its own amount of used space. But they share a common free space.
If you want to compute the percentage of used/free space of a filesystem,
you may run into trouble. Let's take the following example:
Lets say we have a pool P of the size 10GB where the filesystems A and B
live. Lets assume that A currently uses 2GB and B uses 7GB. That makes 1GB
left available in the pool. Reporting 20% usage for A would be misleading
in such a case, because you would assume 80% (i.e. 8GB) of free space. But
in fact just 1GB is left free for futher files. For that reason our zfsget
check reports the current usage plus the available pool space as total size
of the filesystem. In our example that means that the "size" of A is reported
as 3GB with 2GB used (which makes 66.6%). That way all filesystems will
become critical if the available pool space goes to zero.
Filesystems with a quota are handled differently, however. Here the quota
is reported as the total size. If A has a quota of 5GB, we report
2GB out of 5GB used.
Item
The mountpoint of the filesystem
Discovery
One service is created for each mountpoint.