Probably compatible with all nagios derivatives, just havent tested on them download latest version from project homepage. Nagios provides complete monitoring raid arrays and raid. Monitoring vmware esx system health and hardware using nagios. Monitoring with nagios disk nrpe linux stack overflow. It detects all mounted filesystems and compares the usage of them against the warning. Linux software raid md via procmdstat sas2ircu support serveraid ips via ipssend solaris software raid. Apr 20, 2017 in last two post we saw that how we could create and increase raid 5 in linux system. This is a plugin to monitor the values of smart selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology attributes of hard and solid state drives, using smartmontools smartctl in the background. Nagios exchange the official site for hundreds of communitycontributed nagios plugins, addons, extensions, enhancements, and more. Steps to configure raid monitoring with icinga 2 download and install the standard nagios monitoring plugin package includes one for a long time, but there is a new check for raid s under linux. Article shows how to create an array, set a device as faulty and what the. Nagios plugins monitoring plugins maintained by the nagios plugins development team brought to you by. If yes, which plugin am i supposed to use for checking a linux software raid. Gain increased security and an increased awareness of network infrastructure problems before they affect your bottom line.
Ensuring the health of raid arrays and raid controllers is critical to protected against sudden downtime andor data loss. Nagios plugin to check server raid status nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve it infrastructure problems before they affect critical. While written originally for nagios, its known to work. Debian details of package nagiospluginscontrib in sid. Powershell and python scripts to check hp smartarray raid status on windows and linux using hpacucli and hpssacli. Nagios distributions no matter your distro, nagios is the way to go.
Dec 07, 2015 monitoring raid controller using nagios. Hi i have a bash script to check the software raid. Raid plugin we currently have a pretty elaborate nagios systems running and running great, but we are lacking disk checks for the raid controller. Snmp is an agentless method of monitoring network devices and servers, and is often preferable to installing dedicated agents on target machines. Monitoring raid controllers in a environment is very important because, if disk failed we will get notified then we can take an immediate preventing.
Nagios, the nagios logo, and nagios graphics are the servicemarks, trademarks, or registered trademarks owned by nagios enterprises. Nagios core users of all experience levels are welcome here. Ensuring the health of raid arrays and raid controllers is. This is supposed to be a general plugin to run via nrpe. All other servicemarks and trademarks are the property of their. Regardless of your previous experience with raid arrays, and whether you followed all of the tutorials in this raid series or not, managing software raids in linux is not a very complicated. Need assistance in configuring software raid1 plugin. How to manage software raids in linux with mdadm tool. Python plugin to check the status of a software based raid device. Mar 14, 2019 difference between software raid and hardware raid in high level is presented in this video session. How to get details of raid devices both soft and hard. Im trying to monitor an hp smart array controller using nagios.
Subforum have been created for the discussion of nagios core and nagios plugin development. Install and configure nagios monitoring for local and remote hosts. I was talking to an it worker the other day, and he mentioned that theres some pretty good raid monitoring software out there. Nagios is capable of monitoring the state of any linux service apache, mysql, bind, etc. Nagios provides complete monitoring of nas devices including disk usage, directories, file count, file presence, file size, raid. While written originally for nagios, its known to work also with. This runs straight on both 32bit and 64bit systems and all modern linux distros. In case of failure write operations are made that may affect the performance of the raid.
Nagios provides complete monitoring of linux services. Sometimes it is even possible to catch them before they become a major problem. Check all raid volumes hardware and software that can be identified. Nagios icinga plugin to check current servers raid status. I am having a problem with respect to nagios nrpe service is as follows. The powershell version for windows is semiactively developed. How to increase existing software raid 5 storage capacity in linux. Oct 25, 2012 nagios plugin to check server raid status nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve it infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. Nov 26, 2014 i use nagios to monitor every server in my companys infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for applications and infrastructure.
Some checks require root permission, that is acomplished using sudo. Linux software raid plugin for 32bit and 64bit systems nagios. Simple shell script that reads procmdstat and creates some status according to that files content. Nagios provides complete monitoring of ubuntu linux servers and workstations including operating system metrics, service state, process state, file system usage, and more. The files and information on this site are the property of their respective owners. All other servicemarks and trademarks are the property of their respective owner. Plugin for nagios to check the status of linux swraid devices. Use nagios to monitor linux software raid legit nerd. This program checks the usage of the monuted filesystems. A guide to monitoring servers with nagios boolean world. Which raid controller for linux software raid is nice. Raid controller monitoring with nagios raid redundant array of inexpensive disks is a method for protecting against data loss on hard drvies. In this article, we will see how to install nagios core on a linux server and use it to monitor the statistics of another server.
Article shows how to create an array, set a device as faulty and what the nagios plugin shows in each step if monitored. Since we will solely focus on nagios core, we will simply call it nagios in the rest of the article. Use nagios to monitor linux software raid i use nagios to monitor every server in my companys infrastructure. Try a free, fully functional 60 day trial of nagios.
Debian details of package nagiospluginscontrib in stretch. Note that when it comes to md devices manipulation, you should always remember that you are working with entire filesystems. It requires the mdadm utility which is what you also used to create the raid array. Nagios packages are bundled with and available for several operating system distributions and security packages, including the ones below. In our earlier articles, weve seen how to setup a raid 0 and raid 1 with minimum 2 number of disks. Running a reliable hosting infrastructure requires you have tools and processes in place to catch hardware problems as soon as they appear. We are looking for something to check for disk failures or at minimum parse the message log for command raid. Software raid check view topic nagios support forum. Nas network attached storage monitoring with nagios capabilities.
Guide to installing and configuring nagios on a linux server. Okay, its not unknown for several disks to fail simultaneously, and if your raid array consists of a bunch of drives all bought at the same time, for the array, the odds of that happening are painfully high batches of disks tend to have similar lifetimes. Check all active software raid arrays on a linux server. This article provides information about the checkarray script of linux software raid tools mdadm and how it is run. This section is about life with a software raid system, thats communicating with the arrays and tinkertoying them. This document describes how to monitor linux machines with nagios xi using snmp. A question here, if the physical drives are good but the arrays are bad then wil the above script take care of that. Monitoring raid controllers in a environment is very important because, if disk failed we will get notified then we can take an immediate preventing action by replacing the failed disk. Nagios provides complete monitoring raid arrays and raid controllers. Checks all raid volumes hardware and software that can be identified, reporting if there are any errors. We are looking for something to check for disk failures or at minimum parse the message log for command raid errors. In the following three chapters, ill explain how to monitor a remote linux. Checking hard and software raid with icinga2 daily.
Nagiosicinga plugin to check current servers raid status. Nagios xi provides complete monitoring of storage systems including directory size, disk usage, file count, file presence, file size, s. This plugin checks all raid volumes hardware and software that can be identified. The plugin determines the status of raidsets, raid controllers and of individual discs s. We currently have a pretty elaborate nagios systems running and running great, but we are lacking disk checks for the raid controller. Implementing effective redhat enterprise linux monitoring with nagios. Linux gdth hardware raid controllers via procscsigdth linux lsi megaraid hardware raid via cmdtool2 linux lsi megaraid hardware raid via megarc linux lsi megaraid hardware raid via procmegaraid linux megaide hardware raid controllers via procmegaide linux mpt hardware raid via mptstatus linux software raid md via proc. Probably compatible with all nagios derivatives, just havent tested on them. Nagios provides complete monitoring of redhat enterprise linux operating systems and distributions including operating system metrics, service state, process state, file system usage, and more. Dec, 2012 blogoless a blog by an unpretentious system administrator. Raid redundant array of inexpensive disks is a method for protecting against data loss on hard drvies. Its a bit of a hassle to setup, but once you get it up and running and understand the basic concept and how to use nrpe, it becomes easy to start monitoring every aspect of every machine in your network. I have done the configuration of each of the files, but does not recognize me nagios response delivered by nrpe on the cl.
Its a bit of a hassle to setup, but once you get it up and running and. Is it possible to get disk space from nagios command. An open discussion forum for obtaining help with nagios core. I guess it is related to this changelog on nagios plugins2. Nov 19, 2014 raid 10 is a combine of raid 0 and raid 1 to form a raid 10. Implementing effective storage monitoring with nagios. Monitoring plugins maintained by the nagios plugins development team. You can check the status of a software raid array with the command cat procmdstat. Checkarray checks operations verified by the consistency of the raid disks. This is a plugin to monitor the values of smart attributes of hard and solid state drives. In this post we will see how we can remove raid 5 from linux system.
Hi john, your problem is that youre trying to invoke a service that is not local, thus it shouldn be defined not only in your nagios server configuration files, but also in the g file used when the nrpe. Novell suse linux filesystem check plugin for nagios. Linux lsi megaraid hardware raid via procmegaraid linux. All arrays ok 1 array checked it requires the mdadm utility which is what you also used to. Nagios icingasensu plugin to check current servers raid status this plugin checks all raid volumes hardware and software that can be identified. As we created software raid 5 in linux system and mounted in directory to store data on it. Many of the horror stories that come to the linux raid mailing list are down to a simple lack of monitoring. Find file copy path solarkennedy update hardware raid to account for unconfigured drives 2f5fa2b apr 4, 2012. To setup raid 10, we need at least 4 number of disks. I have 4 disks on 2 raid1 arrays, so 2 disks per raid1.
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