Hi, I want to write a script which basically monitors the amount of file usage (%) for a specific file system ,say "/mount1" for a amount of %,say 98%...When it reaches this %,it should generate a warning email to increase the disk space.. And this script should run once everyday at a specific time in unix. Thanks for your help. Best Regards, Dev

Here's one that I use for filesystem monitoring. You can modify it to do email alerts if you want. Here is the config file called diskspace.tab: # D I S K S P A C E . T A B # # Lookup file for the 'diskspace.sh' program. # Format: <filesystem> <flag_percent> <alarm_percent> # / 80 90 /var 30 40 /opt 90 97 /usr 90 95 /tmp 70 90 /stand 80 95 /home 80 95 ---------END of DISKSPACE.TAB Here is the script diskspace.sh: # set -x # D I S K S P A C E . S H # # 07/02/96 # # Checks available disk space against a reference table, # and flags the filesystems that are below their limit. # # 10/12/94 Original Version # 03/06/96 Minor modifications for HP/UX 10.0 # 07/02/96 Fixes to handle multi-line bdf lines better TABLE=/diskspace.tab BOLD=`tput smso` NORM=`tput rmso` if [ ! -f $TABLE ] then TABLE=./diskspace.tab echo "Using Table file : "$TABLE fi echo "\n\n\n% Used\tWarn\tFilesystem Name\t\t\tCURRENT DISKSPACE STATUS" echo---" bdf | while read LINE do set x ${LINE} if [ -n "$3" ] # If $3 is null, suspect multiline fs then shift 5 else read LINE set x ${LINE} shift 4 fi if [ -n "$1" -a "$1" != "used" ] then PERCENT=`echo $1 | tr -d '%'` FILESYSTEM=$2 set x `grep "^${FILESYSTEM} " ${TABLE}` # tab aftr FS if [ -z "$3" ] then continue fi MAX=$3 ALARM=$4 if [ -z "$4" ] then ALARM=100 fi if [ ${PERCENT} -gt $MAX ] then HDR=${BOLD} TRL=${NORM} if [ ${PERCENT} -gt $ALARM ] then TRL="$TRL\t\t\t\t*** CRITICAL ***" else TRL="$TRL\t\t\t\t*** WARNING ***" fi else HDR="" TRL="" fi echo "${PERCENT}%\t(${MAX}%)\t${HDR}${FILESYSTEM}${TRL}" fi done echo "\n" exit 0 --------End of DISKSPACE.SH

e.g. for /dev/hdb9 df -h |grep /dev/hdb9|awk '{ print $5 }' or its mount point (/mnt/hdb9) df -h |grep /mnt/hdb9 |awk '{ print $5 }'

Hi Googly and Dlonra, Thank you so much for you quick response and help.I will schedule it and will let you know what I get. Once again.Thanks a ton!! Regards, Dev

Hi Googly, Thanks once again.I need some more help. Since I am on the learning process,I find it a little tough to exactly understand the sequence/flow of this script. Can you explain me a little bit about this config file.And I would appreciate if you can explain me what exactly is going on in each step.especially the lines like: TABLE=/diskspace.tab BOLD=`tput smso` NORM=`tput rmso` And how do I make it run this script daily for once using crontab... Thank you so much.. Regards, Dev