The RESTful Spare-Disk Check has got subcommands for checking both spare-disks and spare-partions.

Example for checking spare-disks

./check_netapp_spare disk -H filer
NETAPP_PRO SPARE OK - 28 disks checked
...

Checks all nodes for sufficient spare-disks.

Example for checking spare-partitions

./check_netapp_spare …

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 …

3.4.1_01 FIXES USAGE/SHELF-ENVIRONMENT, DISKCOUNT, WORKLOAD, LUNSIZE

Released 2016-03-18

Fixed

• Usage-Check: Handling of volumes with no state-attribute
• shelf-environment-object in cm-getter needs a node-name (sometimes)

New and improved

• new DiskCount check (counts spare-disks per type or storage-pool)
• new workload …

Our new DiskCount  check counts available disks on a system. This can be quite handy when setting a filter, e.g. only counting SSD drives in the spare container. This way, one can use thresholds to send warning messages as soon as the number of spare SSD disks falls below a certain threshold. In contrast to the …

Our Disk  check is going to have a new feature. Using the switch ‑‑what=non-zeroed-spare an alarm is sent as soon as non-zeroed spare disks have been found. Depending on wether the zeroing process is currently running or not, a WARNING (including progress) will be sent or else CRITICAL.