This new plugin monitors the space occupied by snapshots on a volume in its first stage of development. It is similar to its ZAPI predecessor check_netapp_pro.pl Snapshots in that it can calculate the space required by snapshots either relative to the volume size or the snapshot reserve. The parameter …

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.

Please …

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 …

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 …