As of October 1, 2025, Activaria has taken over the distribution of the NetApp Monitoring Plugins. Previously distributed by Quorum Distribution GmbH, the plugins will now be provided directly by us as the original developer and manufacturer. Existing contracts, including active subscriptions remain fully in effect and …

Recently we got an interesting bug-report: A broken disk did not get alarmed by the check_netapp_disk container-type-plugin. This false negative happened because of a configuration, …

New Check for Disk Stats (iops, throughput) in v3.2.0

• New Check: check_netapp_disk stats to monitor disk-path-quality (failed iops), throughput and other disk-metrics.

• New switch --no-include-exclude-message: Do not show the message with the count of included/excluded instances.

For further details please read …

New Checks in v3.1.0

• check_netapp_node service-processor has got new subcommands to check the service-processor

  • state (online/offline)
  • last-update-state (passed/failed)
  • is-ip-configured
  • link-status

  The firmware version is now printed into the message.

• check_netapp_lun state : Checks if luns are online/offline …

❗️Check NetApp-REST introduces a breaking change beginning with v3.0.0.

New Checks

Beside of the above mentioned UI-change we offer a lot of new checks:

• Node: fan, power-supply, temperature, NVRAm battery, node state (up/down), ha state, give-back state
• Check for the the flexcache connection status
• Volume: State- and …

Check NetApp-REST introduces a breaking change beginning with v3.0.0.

Change

For parameters that previously expected a regular expression: Beginning with the v3.0.0 release, values which do not start with a tilde (~) are interpreted as strings that must match exactly, and not as regex patterns.

Motivation

The new …

NetApp’s ZAPI interface (now called ONTAPI) will reach end of availability (EOA) in January 2023. Therefore the checks from Check NetApp-ZAPI won’t be of much use in the near future. Fortunately all customers for Check NetAppPRO can use the future-proof Check NetApp-REST with the same license and …

The RESTful Spare-Disk Check has got subcommands for checking both spare-disks and spare-partions.

Example for checking spare-disks

./check_netapp_spare disk -H filer
NETAPP_PRO SPARE OK - 28 disks checked
...

Checks all nodes for sufficient spare-disks.

Example for checking spare-partitions

./check_netapp_spare …

The v1.2.0 release of our Check E-Series product brings a new monitoring plugin called check_eseries_interface to monitor the host-interfaces.

This plugin contacts the StorageGRID Management API (StorageGRID Webscale) and checks then several values for being as expected. Examples are:

• channel type: driveside or …

Over the years, this blog has accumulated almost 300 articles. Unfortunately, the built-in JS-based search is overwhelmed by this. We have therefore switched the search bar at the top to an external search engine called MetaGer.

Why MetaGer?

MetaGer is a search engine supported by the non-profit SUMA-EV, Association …