The new check_netapp_volume missing plugin notifies you or your team, when a volume has been removed from the system.
Motivation and Workflow NetApp has a “recovery queue” which is set to 12 hours by default. If the monitoring reports that a volume has been deleted, you have the chance to recover that volume.
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We are pleased to announce the 1.1.0 release of our monitoring plugin check_site_simple.
The following is new in this version:
The links to images and other media are checked as well. This means that incorrectly embedded images or videos or those whose sources no longer exist are now recognized as well.
Links to …
The v1.2.0 release of our Check NetApp-REST product contains a new monitoring plugin called check_netapp_volume usage. It provides the monitoring of:
the used space of each volume (in Bytes) the total used space of several volumes the average used space of several volumes the min/max of used space of several volumes A …
The v1.1.0 release of our Check E-Series product brings also a new monitoring plugin called check_eseries_nic. This provides monitoring of:
the link-status (up/down) the current-speed (1Gib/s, 10GiB/s, …) setup-error (true/false) A typical output would for the link-status check look like:
$ ./check_eseries_nic …
We have released a new monitoring plugin called check_eseries_pool. The first version has exactly one subcommand called free-space. This monitors the free space still available for thin volumes in the disk pool.
It is particularly useful when you start taking snapshots or mirroring to another system. In such cases, you …
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 …
I can recommend the unstable release 3.10.1_10 to all experimenting monitoring admins. Above all, this has the character of a technology preview. Included are two major innovations:
The update mode for all getters The option to output Grafana compatible performance data even for status checks. Update Mode The update …