Good point. I'm actually using it as part of a process for monitoring
the free space, so I am mounting each filesystem (if not already
mounted).

Kevin

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On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:26 -0800, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      this is a bit off-topic, but I figured someone on this list
> will know the answer: is there a way from an NFS client system to
> discover all of the NFS filesystems exported by a remote server?
>
> I'm trying to establish some monitoring for a NAS appliance, and I'd
> like to have one of our servers "automagically" mount all the exported
> filesystems - hopefully to prevent missing when a new one export is
> added or removed.

Please be careful using showmount -e as the only method of monitoring a
NAS appliance. If you do actually mount the exported filesystems as
part of the monitoring, that's better.

I've run across NFS servers where it was responding to showmount
requests, but mountd had died, so it was not allowing any new mounts.

/Brian/

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