Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Plugin

[chipngc_nagios]

Curious if anyone has seen a plugin for this or know if one is in the works? Looking for either a wizard or Nagios XI plugin to support a ZFS4-4 or 3-X Oracle Storage Appliance system. Thanks.

[jdalrymple]

This one is kind of what I was expecting to find. Plugin that uses SNMP to query the device. Is that on point?

[chipngc_nagios]

Actually that is an older Sun storage array. I was looking for a plugin or wizard that was all inclusive in terms of getting the CPU/temp/filesystems/pools/services stats out of a ZS4-4 or ZS 3-2 (https://www.oracle.com/storage/products.html)

[jdalrymple]

I'm sure you've looked at our other ZFS plugins on the exchange, they use NRPE and the zfs/zpool commands to get the data. I'm assuming that the Oracle appliance is - just that - an appliance. If you can't install NRPE those plugins aren't an option.

With that I don't see anything newer on the exchange using SNMP. I haven't had my hands on the Oracle hardware so I don't know how SNMPable it is. That's probably going to be the only way, and while there isn't a direct plugin, any SNMP OIDs can be setup in our SNMP device wizards, you just have to know what you're looking for and how to properly configure your alerts based upon the results the device gives.

So the short answer, I think, is no - no plugins available as of yet.

[chipngc_nagios]

Is there a way to tell if anyone is working that potentially or in a road map somewhere? Understand how to install and walk the MIBs however doesn't give the granularity of the information I was looking for out of the appliance.

[jdalrymple]

Internally I can assure you we are not working on it, we're devoid of Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances to develop and test on here. As far as the community goes, you've done the right thing by posing the question on the general support forums. My guess is that nobody is working on them - I come from a storage background and know that Oracle's footprint isn't much to write home about.

Curious - what granularity do you hope to get without using SNMP and by what mechanisms do you hope to get it? I'm unfamiliar with the Oracle appliance so I don't know what monitoring mechanisms it has to offer, for that matter, I don't even KNOW that it supports snmp - I just assume.

[chipngc_nagios]

Understand, thanks. Correct I suppose most of it would be accessible via SNMP. Trying to tease out the CPU, memory usages, fans, temperatures, and things like that. So probably all depends on what the appliance allows access to via SNMP.

[jdalrymple]

I don't know for sure about the new ZFS boxes (obviously) but it's not atypical for a vendor to rely on SNMP for their own monitoring solutions. It's only very recently that the vendors are building customized APIs to grab that data for themselves - SNMP has always *just worked* for everyone.

Surely they have a MIB available for pay-for customers - and if that's the case writing yourself a plugin in the language of your choosing is generally quite trivial. If they don't have a MIB, just start walking. Our snmpwalk wizard can sometimes tackle all your needs... sometimes not though.