vm-guestfs
Description
This command can check disk usage of mounted filesystems in a VM if vmwaretools are running.
Options
Besides the general options this command supports the following options:
| options | description |
|---|---|
--vm-name VMNAME |
name of the VM to check |
--warning THRESHOLD |
(optional) critical threshold, see common options |
--critical THRESHOLD |
(optional) critical threshold, see common options |
--allowed REGEX |
(optional) REGEX is checked against <path of mountpoint>, if REGEX doesn’t match the fs is ignored |
--banned REGEX |
(optional) REGEX is checked against <path of mountpoint>, if REGEX does match the fs is ignored |
--match-method [search,match,fullmatch] |
see common options |
--metric METRIC |
the name of the metric to check, can be one of usage, used, free. used and free can be suffixed by a unit (B, kB, MB, GB), like free_MB or used_GB. if omitted it defaults to usage, which is (100 * used/capacity) |
Examples
# check all filesystems mounted under /var (/var /var/tmp /var/log etc)
# if they have less than 5GB of free space
check_vsphere vm-guestfs -nossl \
-s vcenter.example.com \
-u naemon@vsphere.local \
--vm-name examplevm \
--metric free_GB \
--critical 5: \
--match-method match \
--allow /var