To facilitate communication between users and developers, we are introducing a new switch: --mammamia The idea behind this switch: advanced users that want to test a script or a function which appears not to be working properly usually switch to the command line. Should they require the assistance of the developer, …

The new version of **PerfVolume **is now able to handle any amount of volumes on a filer. The formerly common error message “Not enough memory to get instances” is a thing of the past. Should the amount of instances exceed the maximum possible value, the plugin would start a second call at runtime in order to collect …

The abbreviation rm_ack stands for remove service acknowledgement, which refers to a rather simple algorithm that can be used to identify masked alarms. Masked alarms are a phenomenon that solely appears with checks on multiple instances, such as the simultaneous checking of all volumes on a NetApp device. In a …

So you would like to monitor the latency of your NetApp device? Then you must be careful: in addition to the “latency” that usually refers to the “per volume latency”, the latency of a LUN can also be measured, which is not to be confused with the latency of the volumes on which the LUN is …

Half a year ago there was very little demand for Nagios plugins that support Cluster Mode. Recently, we have received more and more requests for just such plugins. We are looking at Q4 2013 to launch our new release of Nagios Plugins for NetApp, Version 3.0, with added support for cluster mode. …