Preventing filesystems from being monitored

The PATROL KM for UNIX automatically discovers the presence of mounted filesystems and also issues an alert on the FSMountStatus parameter if a discovered filesystem is later unmounted. This feature is not optional and cannot be turned off.

In some situations, however, you can unmount a discovered filesystem and cancel any alerts that the PATROL KM for UNIX would subsequently issue, or you can exclude a filesystem from being monitored in the first place. In such cases, you can use one of the following options to prevent a filesystem from being monitored.

• Use the Stop Monitoring command to add the name of the filesystem to the FILESYSTEM exclusion list. This command will prevent monitoring of the filesystem without regard to whether the filesystem is mounted.
• Edit the /PUK/FILESYSTEM/moniList variable to remove the filesystem name from the variable. This option only applies to previously discovered filesystems that are no longer available. The variable moniList maintains a list of persistently monitored instances based on the filesystem category and the custom filesystem tokens. The variable fsCategory provides the category of the filesystem instance and the variable UNIX/FILESYSTEM/nonPersistCUSTToken provides the custom filesystem tokens for which the persistence monitoring should be denied.