Less can be more Some time ago, we received an enquiry in which a customer illustrated a general problem using the LUN check as follows:
If I run ./check_netapp_pro.pl LunState -H fas --alarm_limit 1
This will show you all the LUNs on the Cluster, both online and offline. We have systems that contain over 200 LUNs, so …
The plugin check_netapp_shelfenv does not work in Ontap 9.8 After much back and forth, we have now received confirmation that in Ontap 9.8 the endpoint /api/private/cli/storage/shelf for the RESTful API is missing or not working.
On the command line it looks like this:
curl -X GET -u nagios:**** -k …
How to integrate the EMS-Log into an existing System-Monitoring solution In this article ONTAP REST APIs: Automate Notification of High-Severity Events Mahalakshmi describes how to use messages to get notified about system events, depending on their type and severity. It’s a really flexible and comprehensive way …
The family of Check NetApp REST monitoring plugins has grown. With the check_netapp_disk container-type plugin the storage admin has a constant eye on disks that have been moved into unwanted containers.
Let’s look at an example:
.$ check_netapp_disk container-type -H sim96 NETAPP DISK CONTAINER TYPE OK - 28 …
The latest release of check_site_simple (v1.1.0.beta.1 as of writing this article) will find broken links to image and media-sources as well.
Like it’s predecessors the integrated crawler of check_site_simple flags any broken link found somewhere on the checked site but now links to images and media files (e.g. …
The first stable release (v1.1.0) of our brand new Check E-Series product brings an automated health check for e-series nodes.
check_eseries_health will run the health checks regularly and automatically report any errors found.
Example $ ./check_eseries_health --host=10.1.1.125 --system-id 1 [...] NETAPP ESERIES HEALTH …
We have discovered an issue in the new 6.x versions of check_netapp_pro if a getter contacts the new RESTful API of NetApp. These getters require an explicit --stm (e.g. --stm=1h). Otherwise the collected storefiles are not deleted and could fill up the monitoring servers disk.
Again this does affect installations only …
We have at least one confirmed report, that our latest release v6.0.0 has performance problems in large environments, when running many checks at the same time.
There seems to be a limit of approximately 12 checks per second due to the overhead of running a docker container. We are working on a solution and will report …
After extensive testing we released the next major version 6.0.0 today. As already announced this version brings:
Easy installation and update without dependencies on Perl or Perl-Modules. Getter amd checks compatible with NetApps new RESTful API New checks and options More details are in the release history .
This …
We just pushed the first RC for the upcoming 6.0.0 version to the Distributors Portal . Customers who would like to test are very much appreciated! (Pls. check with the distributor to get access to unstable releases as well, if you do not see them on your account.) The 6.0.0 version brings a completely dockered and …