Not sure about Nagios but were were able to setup up monitoring with Zenoss for our Nexenta Enterprise system.

You might try going into the NMC and type 'setup network service snmp-agent'. Enter your info there.

On 1/18/2012 12:17 PM, NexentaStor.org wrote:

http://www.nexentastor.org/boards/1/topics/4630 natxo asenjo

hi,

at work we have been running a pilot with this storage platform and so far we are very impressed (we have downloaded the community edition).

We have installed it in an old proliant dl 360 g5 with 1 scsi cabinet, in total we have 12 disks.

The nfs performance is impressive so far!

But ..., how do we know if something breaks? We use a number of proliant and poweredge servers and we can always monitor the hardware aspects of the servers with snmp and the hp or dell hardware agents for systems with Windows or Linux. For ESX, we can monitor the hardware with cim checks (we use nagios, by the way). How can we achieve this with nexentastor? I saw there is an API for nexentastor, can we use this to monitor the hardware health of the server?

Is it possible to install the nagios agent (nrpe) for nexentastor?

TIA.

Natxo

-- Lynn Cress Sr. Systems/Network Administrator Washburn University phone: (785) 670-2387

Do you mean you get hardware info from the nexentastor servers if a hard disk/fan/psu/memory block fails?

The short answer is no. But I can monitor file systems (and shares), processors, ip services and network interfaces. I am using the pre-configured Solaris template provided within Zenoss.

If you need more hardware related info, then maybe there is a Nagios template that can do that.

On 1/18/2012 2:19 PM, NexentaStor.org wrote:

http://www.nexentastor.org/boards/1/topics/4630 natxo asenjo

Do you mean you get hardware info from the nexentastor servers if a hard disk/fan/psu/memory block fails?

-- Lynn Cress Sr. Systems/Network Administrator Washburn University phone: (785) 670-2387

Not sure if this helps but figured i would throw it out here:

I recently was concerned when i saw some people post that a zpool was very slow, but nothing showed up via NMV. fmadm faulty then showed that a drive was failing, but hadn't failed yet... keeping it in limbo almost. Nexenta kept it in the pool since it had not yet failed, but it was performing horribly because it was on its way out.. Not good (something i hoped is fixed in illumian)

My thought was, why not just setup a simple script to have the box email me when fmadm faulty comes up with a failing or failed device? (not just disks, but ram, ps, nics, etc..)

Someone has already done this, i may tweak and try it myself once i get my box up and running:

http://blogs.oracle.com/lamsey/entry/gettingemailreportsofhardware

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Nice Steve, Thanks!

ok, that is promising. If I can get to execute that kind of commands from ssh I could monitor the disks at least. I will check next week at work.

Nagios pkg must be available soon in Nexenta, there some plugins for it at http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Uncategorized/Operating-Systems/Solaris but I admit that we can write our own plug-in...

alternatively you can use the SA-API to monitor your Nexenta system through the dbus or rest API. The REST API is really quite simple to use.