Network File System protocol (NFS) is often used to share file systems between servers and clients. Often, if an NFS file system fails, the directories mapped to the NFS file system will be unavailable. Accesses to these directories/files will take a long time and ultimately fail. This could potentially result in application failures and outages. Hence, administrators need the capability to detect when an NFS file system is unavailable or is running out of space. The NfsMountTest provides administrators with this capability. This test should be executed on a system that is an NFS client - i.e., is mounting directories from remote servers. This test auto-discovers all NFS-mounted directories and in real-time monitors the availability and space usage of each of these directories. This test is supported only on Unix platforms (i.e., not on Windows). Only agent-based monitoring is supported. One set of records for each NFS mounted file system.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the NfsMountTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed. 

• Specify the maximum duration (in seconds) in the TIMEOUT text box for which the test will wait for a response from the server. The default timeout period is 30 seconds. 

• Once the above value is provided, click on the UPDATE button to register the changes made.