Nagios: Any point in monitoring /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr when also using inode monitoring in check_disk

Question

We are using the standard Nagios check_disk plugin which has the ability to monitor the inode usage on a system.

We also have an in-house plugin which checks the data in /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr.

Because the standard Nagios plugin is configured to monitor inode usage, is there any additional benefit in monitoring /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr too?

Thanks

Rich

Answer 1

Since they are both effectively monitoring the same thing, I don't see much point in that.