check_storage_health

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Description

check_storage_health monitors various storage systems. Which ones specifically are supported can be determined by testing - if it doesn’t work, then it’s not supported.

Documentation

Command line parameters

  • --hostname <hostname or ip> The hostname or IP address
  • --community <snmpv2-community> SNMP community string
  • --mode <mode> The monitoring mode
  • --help Display help information
  • --warning <range> Warning threshold
  • --critical <range> Critical threshold

Modes

Keyword Meaning
uptime Measures how long the device has been running
filesystem-free Checks free space in the filesystem
snapshot-age Checks the age of snapshots

Installation

Standard procedure: tar zxvf …; cd ….; ./configure; make; cp plugins-scripts/check_storage_health /destination/path

Examples

Basic hardware check:

nagios$ check_storage_health --hostname 192.168.1.100 --community public --mode uptime
OK - uptime is 42 days

Check filesystem space:

nagios$ check_storage_health --hostname 192.168.1.100 --community public --mode filesystem-free
OK - filesystem has sufficient free space

Download

Go to Github, clone and build.

Changelog

You can find the changelog here.

Gerhard Lausser

Check_storage_health is released under the GNU General Public License. GNU GPL

Author

Gerhard Lausser gerhard.lausser@consol.de