ZFS monitoring

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:48:55PM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
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> 
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:33:24AM +0200, Tom?? Drbohlav wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Dne 8.9.2011 11:27, Borja Marcos napsal(a):
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Some time ago I wrote a FreeBSD data collector for Orca (www.orcaware.com/orca). Seems it wasn't much of a success, but I use it all the time :)
> > >
> > > I would like to add some ZFS  aware monitoring. Any suggestions for key statistics that would be useful to see in graphic form? Something like cache hits/misses, etc.
> > 
> > we've got great experience with http://cuddletech.com/arc_summary/ (btw 
> > adapted to Nagios), actually, we use some version with added l2 cache stats.
> > 
> >   Drb
> > 
> 
> You have considerable missed this then:
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> https://jhell.googlecode.com/files/arc_summary.pl
> 
> and the current repository version:
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> http://bit.ly/arc_summary
> 
> Which at this time are essentially the same.
> 
> sysutils/zfs-stats is essentially a clone of an older version with
> slight modifications.

I could have a field day fixing this perl script.  Would you like me to
contact you off-list discussing all the problems with it?  There are
many (at least 6 just from skimming).

I would worry if this script was used by something like Nagios natively.
Major eek.

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