11Jan/094
Monitoring Netapp Filer with Nagios
I needed to monitor 3 NetApp filers with Nagios.
Since the filers are quite accesible through things like ssh, web interface and SNMP I didn't think it would be hard. But, when doing a quick search I've found this excellent nagios plugin made by Sven Velt. It is available at http://people.teamix.net/~svelt/check_netappfiler/. It has saved me *lots* of time.
It even seems to be prepared to be used with pnp4nagios too. I haven't tried this since I'm not using it.
One strange thing though... I can query all the filers with standard SNMP settings even with SNMP disabled on the filer(s). This has suprised me a bit. It might be a bug, but I'm not sure.
January 16th, 2009 - 18:40
Hi!
Thanks for this statement ;-)
If you have problems and/or ideas please contact me! I would be happy to integreate new features in the plugin.
bye
Sven
April 22nd, 2010 - 00:00
Roedie, this plugin probably uses Netapp API to collect data, so you don’t need SNMP running on your filers.
There’s a product called LogicMonitor, which automates a lot of work to setup Netapp monitoring, and also can monitor other devices in a datacenter (servers, load balancers, databases, networking gear, etc).
Check out http://www.logicmonitor.com/monitoring/monitoring-netapp-filers/
April 22nd, 2010 - 16:56
Hi Michael,
why pay for a solution which is closed source if you can do it yourself for free and have the source.
June 4th, 2010 - 14:41
Hi,
You should look at Shinken too, it’s a enhanced Nagios reimplementation in Python that allow you to have a quick and easy distributed and high availability monitoring environment, and of course with Nagios configuration and plugins compatibility.
It’s available (Open Source with a AGPL licence) at http://www.shinken-monitoring.org with even a demo virtual machine to test it in 5minutes.
Jean Gabes, Shinken developper