Hi, up to now, I have usually been monitoring "real" Unix systems: One installs a bunch of Nagios plugins directly on the target systems and monitors away.
Now, I have been asked to monitor a cluster of VMware ESX servers and a fibrechannel-based HP MSA Storage Unit. On the MSA, I cannot install any software at all, and on the ESX servers, I'd rather not install any software since this endangers VMware support just in case something would act up. The site in question is very interested in being able to yell at their vendors if something doesn't work. Both ESX and MSA can speak SNMP, but both boxes are missing information in their SNMP data set that I'd really love to monitor: Both boxes' SNMP sets are missing information about power supply status and whether we have any failed hard disks. I have installed all MIBs that VMware and HP have delivered, and full snmpwalk output does not contain any numerically written OIDs. But there is nothing identifying whether a hard disk or a power supply is even online, and I'd have expected to find a hard disk's SMART info at least partially in the data set which is pollable via SNMP. Are there other possibilities of connecting Nagios to ESX and MSA devices? I'd appreciate your input. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null