Report that Graphs Free Drive Space Over Time

[terje]

We monitor free drive space on a large number of servers.

For each server I want to be able to produce HTML pages that show a graph. The graph should shows the drive space trend over time.

Ideally the graph will show TOTAL SPACE and FREE SPACE ploted against the date over a period of up to three years.

I am fairly sure that Hostmonitor can not do this sort of thing out of the box.

However I think it can create log files that would include these data sets for each day, and update them going forward. I could in theory then use these data sets to create a graph with the relevant details.

Because there are so many servers I want to automate this process. I want each Graph for each server updated daily and published into different folders on the web server for access by different people.

I imagine that I could get some PHP or other language scripted to routinely analyse the data and produce the graph.

Does anybody have any experience doing anything like this and/or can they offer any pointers on how best to tackle the task.

[KS-Soft]

HostMonitor does not monitor total disk space (usually this is constant parameter), but it may monitor free drive space. Then you may use built-in scheduler to start Log Analyzer once a day and create graphs for each server.
www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/la/index.htm
www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/la/index.htm#Scripts

Regards
Alex

[terje]

The scripting process looks close to ideal.

What I have is a number of folders each with Drive Space Tests. What I want is a chart of all the Drive Space Tests for each folder put in a specific report.

For example if we have two folders called "Sydney Servers" and "London Servers" we would end up with two seperate reports, each delivered to a different file location.

At the moment the only way I can see to do this is to have all the tests for each folder log to a separate log file. Then when each report is generated it should use a different profile to control the output destination.

Is there no way that reports can be filtered on Folder? Do I have to manually seperate out all the folders to separate logs?

In essence I am looking for some type of macro scripting where the specified folder can be sent as a parameter.

[KS-Soft]

[terje]

It seems that all that would really be required is:-

1. Logging of the folder name.
2. Reporting that can filter log files based on the folder.

[lalalaRayAlex]

[KS-Soft]

What exactly the problem?
- How to create script for Log Analyzer? Its described right here: http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/la/index.htm#Scripts
- How to setup scheduler? Its pretty simple http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mframe.htm#options.htm#SchedPage

Regards
Alex