New Check displays warning message when Thin Provisioned Volumes grow too quickly. The check OvercommitAggr is already capable of identifying cases when the total sum of the actual disk space used by thin provisioned volumes on an aggregate is running low. Currently, absolute (in Byte) or percentage (in relation to …
Use these two switches to obtain background information The newly included switch --discover is now ready to be used, whereas --explore has been available since Version 2.x. Furthermore, the meaning of --explore has been changed slightly. How can the admin take advantage of these switches?
–explore --explore displays …
New Release monitors lag-time, transfer-size, transfer-duration and snap-mirror-status. The reliable check **SnapMirror, **previously bundled in the suite check_netapp 2.x, has been separated into two different checks in the new version of check_netapp_pro (3.x):
SnapMirrorState SnapMirrorMetrics The two different …
Our Nagios plugins for NetApp are able to read usage of each CPU separately or of the entire system (calculated average for all processors) and transfers the information to the monitoring system (Nagios, Icinga, op5, …).
The check **PerfCpu **can be usedto monitor separate CPUs:
$ ./check\_netapp\_pro.pl PerfCpu -H …
How can I find Volumes without any Snapshots? How can you find out which Volumes on the Filer don’t have any Snapshots? The check Snapshots,which is included in our Suite check_netapp_pro, provides a relatively easy way of achieving this. The following example demonstrates how it can be used:
$ check\_netapp\_pro …
Version 3.0.7 of our Monitoring Plugins for NetApp (check_netapp_pro) will be available soon and will include a number of new features that have been implemented based on feedback we received from our customers:
New Check PerfSys: Not entirely new, but taken over from the stable version 2.x to version 3.x. In this new …
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 …