Show simple disk IO table using snmp

watch -n1 snmptable -v2c -c public localhost diskIOTable

Show a simple table with disk IO for the specified host. you monitor a LOT of different thing. Mostly used for MRTG and similar, but this is nice for a quick look, which disk is busy. "public" is your SNMP community ensure that snmpd is running on the host which you intend to monitor

Sample Output

SNMP table: UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOTable

 diskIOIndex diskIODevice diskIONRead diskIONWritten diskIOReads diskIOWrites diskIOLA1 diskIOLA5 diskIOLA15 diskIONReadX diskIONWrittenX
          17          sda   584613888     1428402176    13914979    267963215         ?         ?          ? 357066899456    667148333056
          18         sda1   280805376       21175296        6642         3423         ?         ?          ?    280805376        21175296
          19         sda2    25480192              0        1310            0         ?         ?          ?     25480192               0
          20         sda3   253158400     1407226880    13905929    267959792         ?         ?          ? 356735443968    667127157760
          21         sda4    24928256              0        1079            0         ?         ?          ?     24928256               0
          22          sdb  3615167488     1063622656    25348119    316090884         ?         ?          ? 622090458112   1521482045440
          23         sdb1   441298944       53754880       10517        11985         ?         ?          ?    441298944        53754880
          24         sdb2   197819392      125833216       17929         1246         ?         ?          ?    197819392       125833216
          25         sdb3  2009035776     1397529600    16372147    305225907         ?         ?          ? 556059816960   1036484647936
          26         sdb4   966726656     3781464064     8947501     10851744         ?         ?          ?  65391236096    484817801216

By: oernii2

2010-03-19 11:31:52

watch watch oernii snmp diskio

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