You can hit the DFM server with an HTTP request to send you the data it would have shown you in the filers-ops report, but in a different form, such as comma-separated values.
Use a URL like
http://%7Bdfm-server%7D:8080/dfm/report/filers-ops?output-format=xls
You can pass arguments to filter the list by filer, or by group, however you like.
- Brian
| -----Original Message----- | From: A Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham@taos.com] | Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:13 PM | To: toasters@mathworks.com | Subject: Query DFM server? | | Is there an easy way to query a DFM server remotely? I'd | like to grab some data on demand (Current CPU). I could do | that via SNMP without too much trouble, but I'd rather not | let all the clients directly poll the filers. | | The DFM server already has that information, and I can poll | it on the machine itself with something like 'dfm report | filers-ops <filer>'. I'd rather let the clients hit this | machine so there's no performance impact on the filers if | something goes wrong. Is there a way of getting that same | data from a remote host without setting up accounts and | automated logins? I thought I might be able to run the dfm | software on the client directly, but if I can, I'm missing | how to specify the server that it contacts... | | The web reports are fine, but I don't want to scrape them | through the normal display. If I can get the raw data from | the DFM server via http/snmp/other, that would be good. | | Thanks. | | -- | Darren Dunham | ddunham@taos.com | Senior Technical Consultant TAOS | http://www.taos.com/ | Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, | CA bay area | < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > |