Running a Linux Script component monitor against a system different than the one it's assinged to?

byrona

I would like to know if it would be possible to have a Linux script component monitor run against a system other than the one its assigned to?

The reason I need this is as follows...

We currently have a backup server that all of our systems are backed up to.  On each system I would like to have an application that shows how much space on our backup system it's backup is using.  Basically report the backup footprint of the system using an APM component.  To do this I would need to run the script against our backup system but have the component assigned to the system that is being backed up.

Any suggestions on this would be much appreciated!

jiri.tomek

Hello Byron,
Linux scripting has virtually no limits and you should be able to do everything you can imagine because Linux is based on command shell and scripts.

You can write a script that will run on each of servers but will connect to backup server and count used space on that backup server. There are various ways how to do it. Your script can dynamically create a new script on backup server through SSH as APM does for it's Linux scripts, or it can just remotely connect to backup server and get data through SSH without creating separate script there. It all depends on system settings, security and way how backup server reports used space by different backups.