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:

optionsdescription
--vm-name VMNAMEname 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 METRICthe 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