Low Disk Space Alert Script for Linux

Automating tasks can save a lot of our time and also avoid any downtime if anything goes wrong if not monitored. So, here is a script to monitor disk space which can alert the system admin to take necessary action.

This script can be used to send mail to system admin informing or alerting him about the disk space. This script can be scheduled to run at the intervals of 10/20/30...and so on minutes using CRON job.

Script:

#!/bin/sh
#Author: Akash Mehta
#Email alert when disk space runs low shell script.

#Shell script to monitor  the disk space
#It will send an email to $ADMIN if the free available percentage of disk space is >=85%

#Set an email for $ADMIN
ADMIN="[email protected]"

#Set alert threshold to 85%
ALERT=85

#Exclude list of unwanted disks/partitions, if several partitions use "|" to separate the partitions.
#Example: EXCLUDE_LIST="/dev/hdd1|/dev/hdd2"
EXCLUDE_LIST="/dev/hdd2"

function main() {
while read output;
do
#echo $output
  usep=$(echo $output | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d'%' -f1)
  partition=$(echo $output | awk '{print $2}')
  if [ $usep -ge $ALERT ] ; then
    echo "Disk space running out for \"$partition ($usep%)\" on server $(hostname), $(date)" | \
    mail -s "Alert: Low disk space $usep%" $ADMIN
  fi
done
}
if [ "$EXCLUDE_LIST" != ""] ; then
  df -H | grep -vE "^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom|${EXCLUDE_LIST}" | awk '{print $5 " " $6}' | main
else
  df -H | grep -vE "^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom" | awk '{print $5 " " $6}' | main
fi