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  • 1.  Nimsoft CDM ignore bind mounts?

    Posted May 10, 2018 07:34 AM

    CA team,

     

    Is there a way to have Nimsoft cdm ignore bind mounts? I understand cdm has the ability of ignoring filesystem types, however, with bind mounts in cdm.cfg, they are seen as ext4 off the local disk fs where the source directory of the bind mount exists. Linux "mount" sees the bind mount type as none and it would be handy if this could be incorporated.

     

    <#var#sftp#site1#home#test>
    active = yes
    description = File system /var/sftp/site1/home/test
    disk = /dev/mapper/vglocal20160707-root00

    file_system_type = ext4

     

    /var/sftp/test/home/test on /var/sftp/site1/home/test type none (rw,bind)
    /var/sftp/test/home/test on /var/sftp/site2/home/test type none (rw,bind)

    etc..

     

    Current methods of mitigating this are

    • Setting active to no for all bind mounts.
      • Annoying as it requires manual intervention every time a bind mount is added to avoid any duplicate monitoring events.
    • Setting the <fixed_default> active to no once the initial setup has been done, before the bind mounts are added.
      • This is not the best route as clients add further storage (SAN/Local) and these need to be monitored without invention from an engineer.

     

    Are there are any suggestible regex methods i can use? If not, could this be a feature request to be added to later versions of cdm?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Matthew



  • 2.  Re: Nimsoft CDM ignore bind mounts?

    Posted May 10, 2018 02:57 PM

    Matthew,

     

    I don't see a way to accomplish this and for inclusion into cdm it is necessary to post an Idea.

    Use a title something like: UIM cdm ignore Linux bind mounts

    Under Publish Location use CA Unified Infrastructure Management



  • 3.  Re: Nimsoft CDM ignore bind mounts?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 10, 2018 09:04 PM

    Hi Matthew,

    Here is a link to a Tech Tip I wrote that may help you.

    Tech Tip: UIM - How to configure cdm to ignore specific filesystems, filesystem types or devices 



  • 4.  Re: Nimsoft CDM ignore bind mounts?

    Posted May 11, 2018 07:31 AM

    Thanks Stephen. I have already been through this thread and tried to work out of way of not picking up bind mounts, but it doesn't appear possible at this time. If CDM saw these mounts as bind mounts then one could easily use regex on the ignore filesytem type filter to ignore them, which would be great.



  • 5.  Re: Nimsoft CDM ignore bind mounts?

    Posted May 11, 2018 08:25 AM

    Matthew,

     

    Don't forget to vote up your idea.



  • 6.  Re: Nimsoft CDM ignore bind mounts?

    Posted May 11, 2018 08:31 AM

    Ahh yes! Thanks.



  • 7.  Re: Nimsoft CDM ignore bind mounts?

    Posted May 11, 2018 08:56 AM

    So perhaps this question thread can be closed.