Monitoring NFS (nfs4) file systems on Linux

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

There is large file system under /admin/dba directory.

I have DX UIM 20.3.3 and CDM 6.60 installed on the target Linux system. I can see the file system showed up with network, nfs4 filesystem type, but there is NA for Total and Free disk space in there. 

Does the NA mean that we cannot monitor the file system?  Does CDM v6.60 support nfs4 file systems?

Environment

• Release: DX UIM 20.3
• CDM v6.60 

Cause

• Configuration

Resolution

Tested and confirmed its working in the lab when running cdm v6.84.

cdm can detect the presence/availability of the mounted file system by configuring this via the Custom Tab in cdm and it will alarm on it.

In the Custom Tab make sure you click 'Allow Space Monitoring' for the NFS filesystem

First, please make sure that the nfs filesystem is not being excluded in cdm via 'Ignore Filesystems' or the 'Filesystems Type Filter.'

To track its disk utilization, you have to Rt-click on the disk and "Enable Space Monitoring."

Then restart cdm.