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 therefore …
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.
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Since 4.0.0 every over-all check has a feature, which we call “instance-name contains node-name”. We have introduced this as an replacement for the sporadic available --node|--vserver parameter (not available any more). So since then each instance-name has the name of its node prefixed. This allows to use …
We are constantly trying new methods of installing the plugins so to make installation and upgrade easy and scriptable (rpm, …). We found the Perl dependencies being the main obstacle and finally favorite a solution depending on docker.
So in the future you could get a fully installed docker image with anything …
Our quite new SnapCenter check can filter for resource-groups and policies. Until now one had to precisely define which resource-groups should get checked.
In some situations the resource-group name changes. To allow checking such resource-groups without having to constantly change the filters in the service-check …
We have one report, that changing the setup from a chain setup (netapp01 → netapp02 → netapp03) to a star setup (netapp01 → netapp02 ➕ netapp01 → netapp03) makes stoping some collectors (e.g. get_netapp_cm.pl) with an error of “Instance ‘NETAPP01-SVM01:NETAPP01_SVM01_xxxx01_vol’ already exists - can …
We are happy to announce that the next major release of check_netapp_pro is now available on the Q-Portal for download.
The breaking changes for this release are:
A new directory layout which will ease the creation of RPM-packages. Also we have introduced a new getter for DataONTAP 9.7s new API plus several new checks. …
The new UnprotectedVolume check searches for volumes not protected by a SnapMirror.
An alarm is generated if one or more unprotected volumes are found. Specific volumes and vservers can be checked by using the standard check_netapp_pro --include= and --exclude= arguments. A simple example follows using the default …
The check_netapp_quotas script returns a list of filers where quotas are in
place and where quotas are exceeded.
This script has a nifty new feature, which is available from check_netapp_pro version 5 onwards, to list quota limits per user. Enabling the --list_users switch will make the check_netapp_quotas script print …
The new VolumeAge check for check_netapp_pro warns about overly old or exceptionally young volumes, where the age is calculated as the difference between the volume creation-time and now.
Thresholds (--warning, --critical) may be set in days (d) or week (w). Various arguments can be used to narrow down the search in …