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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Nagios Plugin for Overland Storage

Icinga2 is a great Network & Systems monitoring tool forked from Nagios. It's very flexible and very easy to understand and use. I have worked with many different Network and Systems monitoring tools throughout my career, Solarwinds, SCOM, WhatsUP Gold, ManageEngine, SpiceWorks, Nagios, etc. just to name a few. But this one beats them all. 

If you can't find a plugin (or check as they call it in Nagios world), you can write your own and that's what I did. Go check it out, it's on github, 

https://github.com/computingbee/check_overlandstorage

This lets you monitor Disk, RAID status, and NIC failures on your Overland Storage arrays.

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    1. Custom monitoring plugins are a great example of how flexible tools like Nagios and Icinga2 can be adapted to meet specific infrastructure requirements. Monitoring disk health, RAID status, and network interface failures on storage arrays helps administrators detect potential problems early and improve system reliability. I also appreciate the practical approach of creating a custom check when an existing plugin does not cover the required hardware.

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  2. Great post! The Nagios plugin for Overland Storage looks like a useful tool for streamlining storage monitoring. It's great to see solutions that systems monitoring tool and simplify management. Thanks for sharing!

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