Re: nfsv4 monitoring tool

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:48:22PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 01:43:05PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > is there any NFSv4 monitoring tool, that can be run on NFSv4 server (running
> > > NFSv4.0 + GSS) and that reports statistics per connected client? I would like
> > > to see amount of transfered data for each client, latency of RPC calls, rate
> > > of requests.
> > > 
> > > nfsstat on server does not distinguish individual clients. 
> > > nfswatch does not support NFSv4
> > > 
> > > I didn't find anything else. Do I need to create the tool by myself or is
> > > there free of paid tool thad does the job?
> > 
> > We don't gather such statistics, unfortunately.  I agree that it would
> > be useful, and would be happy to talk about possible implementations
> 
> so we decided to implement this using systemtap tool and it works ok. But if
> NFS server could provide statistics by itself, it would be far better.

Sure.  If you have a detailed description of the statistics that you're
gathering (and/or the systemtap scripts), that could help make sure we
capture what you need.

--b.