Need disk statistics

Jorn Argelo jorn at wcborstel.nl
Wed Dec 8 09:07:07 PST 2004


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:04:58 -0500, Brian McCann wrote
> Hi all.  I need to get the percent busy for the disks in my servers,
> so that I can graph/monitor them.  I've looked into the UCD-SNMP 
> MIBs, but their % busy counters for disks don't appear to work.  I 
> know I can use iostat to get the "close to" instantaneous % busy,
>  but I'm looking for a 5 minute average.  Has anyone does this?  Any 
> ideas on how to get this done?

MRTG, RRDtool or Nagios will do the trick. All of them can be found in the 
ports-tree. Be prepared for some work though, because it isn't that easy.

Jorn

> 
> Thanks,
> --Brian
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