CDM: Failed to get FsUsage

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)
• Unified Infrastructure Management for Mainframe

Issue/Introduction

1.  Overload alarm message of disk missing, like "Local file system /xxx is not available"
2.  cdm.log has messages like "cdm: Failed to get FsUsage for /xxx/xxx/xxx"
3.  From the result of running the command-> "df -k" and "etc/fstab" there are no entries that match with the alarm message.

Environment

• UIM 8.5.1,20.x
• CDM probe 6.30
• Linux
• OS description = Linux 2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 12 15:07:59 EST 2018 x86_64

Cause

File systems which are said to be available are not file systems seen on the server.

Resolution

- Configure cdm to ignore certain filesystems, filesystem types and/or devices.

Additional Information

How to configure cdm to ignore filesystems, types and devices
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/129655/how-to-configure-the-cdm-probe-to-ignore.html