RE: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP


We are using autofs to mount cdrom and dvd iso images. There
are nearly 100 of them. Too many to really monitor
individually so we wanted to just monitor autofs. It looks
to me like each auto.* file in /etc spawns it's own process
and pid. And the pid changes each time the daemon is
restarted or the mount point expires and is then re-mounted.
If we could just monitor the pid spawned by auto.master I
think that would do it for us. I asked in another reply in
this thread if a daemon could be assigned a pid but don't
have a response yet.

If it spawns a new process each time it mounts a new partition, would it
not have a parent process that would at least be constant on the server?
If that's the case, maybe you should just monitor the parent process.
Otherwise, it would make sense to monitor a partition instead of a pid
for a specific spawned process.

James


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