Hi there,
I’m running a Promox VE hypervisor and am using ZFS with 2x HDD drives and one SSD to fasten up things.
The special_proxmox_ve datasource only provided me with two ZFS checks, but I wanted to get more intel about the status of my ARC Caches, so I did some research.
Apart from a plugin for collectd, I couldn’t find any useful information. Until I found the solaris check_mk_agent and this thread.
By simply adjusting the script to work on a linux machine, I was able to have a plugin for both the ARC and the L2ARC Cache. I hope this will get some attention and makes it into a downloadable plugin in a newer version of CMK. Maybe it even gets implemented into the main agent for linux. Who knows?
Anyways, here’s the script for those that don’t want to wait until then:
#!/bin/bash
echo '<<<zfs_arc_cache>>>'
if [ ! -x /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats ]
then
cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats |
sed -e '1,2d' |
awk '{printf "%s = %s\n", $1, $3;}'
fi
Place it under /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins/zfs_arc_cache
and have fun!
EDIT: It looks like this when it’s activated