Monitoring remote drives

[chrisyates1]

Hi,

I'm new to the forum and nagios.

I have entered a job where nagios is in place, we are currently monitoring local drives with check_nt although I am looking at updating all checks to nrpe.

My question is, is it possible to monitor a mapped drive on a Windows server? I have the necessary ports open and have edited the ini file for the nsclient++, however I've had no luck in getting it to work using check_nrpe!check_disk! Command.

Please can you shed some light on what is best practice in order to do this.

Thanks in advanced.
Chris

[lmiltchev]

What version of NSClient++ are you currently using? I am using "0.4.3.143" and have an "alias_disk" alias defined in the "nsclient.ini":

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alias_disk = check_drivesize

From the Nagios XI server, I run:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H x.x.x.x -c alias_disk
OK All 5 drive(s) are ok|'C:\ used'=353.64769GB;362.36562;407.66132;0;452.95702 'C:\ used %'=78%;79;89;0;100 'D:\ used'=83.01934GB;186.30312;209.59101;0;232.8789 'D:\ used %'=35%;79;89;0;100 'E:\ used'=0B;0;0;0;0 'F:\ used'=0B;0;0;0;0 '\\?\Volume{4d36d4c6-efab-11e0-a8e7-806e6f6e6963}\ used'=7.38542GB;10.20937;11.48554;0;12.76171 '\\?\Volume{4d36d4c6-efab-11e0-a8e7-806e6f6e6963}\ used %'=57%;79;89;0;100

Is this the functionality that you are looking for?

[chrisyates1]

What version of NSClient++ are you currently using? I am using "0.4.3.143" and have an "alias_disk" alias defined in the "nsclient.ini":

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alias_disk = check_drivesize

From the Nagios XI server, I run:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H x.x.x.x -c alias_disk
OK All 5 drive(s) are ok|'C:\ used'=353.64769GB;362.36562;407.66132;0;452.95702 'C:\ used %'=78%;79;89;0;100 'D:\ used'=83.01934GB;186.30312;209.59101;0;232.8789 'D:\ used %'=35%;79;89;0;100 'E:\ used'=0B;0;0;0;0 'F:\ used'=0B;0;0;0;0 '\\?\Volume{4d36d4c6-efab-11e0-a8e7-806e6f6e6963}\ used'=7.38542GB;10.20937;11.48554;0;12.76171 '\\?\Volume{4d36d4c6-efab-11e0-a8e7-806e6f6e6963}\ used %'=57%;79;89;0;100

Is this the functionality that you are looking for?

I can't remember off the top of my head what version it is but I g have a feeling we are still on version 3 - also don't know if it makes a difference but nagios is themed with something called adagios.

[tmcdonald]

I can't remember off the top of my head what version it is but I g have a feeling we are still on version 3 - also don't know if it makes a difference but nagios is themed with something called adagios.

So this is not a Nagios XI question? Please do not post in the Nagios XI section if you have Nagios Core questions, as we will be potentially providing incorrect troubleshooting steps. I will move this thread to the appropriate section of the forum.

To find your Core version, please run the following from the command line:

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/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --version

And just to note, Adagios is not one of our products, and is not something we can provide support for. The underlying Core engine is probably not altered, but we cannot assist with the frontend.

[chrisyates1]

I can't remember off the top of my head what version it is but I g have a feeling we are still on version 3 - also don't know if it makes a difference but nagios is themed with something called adagios.

So this is not a Nagios XI question? Please do not post in the Nagios XI section if you have Nagios Core questions, as we will be potentially providing incorrect troubleshooting steps. I will move this thread to the appropriate section of the forum.

To find your Core version, please run the following from the command line:

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/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --version

And just to note, Adagios is not one of our products, and is not something we can provide support for. The underlying Core engine is probably not altered, but we cannot assist with the frontend.

Sorry I'm new to the forum and nagios so was unaware that it would cause issues. As far as I have been told the adagios is just a front end gui theme so would not alter the back end.

[Box293]

is it possible to monitor a mapped drive on a Windows server?

When talking about mapped drives, they are mapped by the user who is logged on. The NSClient++ service is running under the local system account, so it does not get login scripts/mapped drives when it logs on.

What is your goal in wanting to monitor a mapped drive?
Why don't you monitor the drive in the server that is sharing the drive?

[chrisyates1]

is it possible to monitor a mapped drive on a Windows server?

When talking about mapped drives, they are mapped by the user who is logged on. The NSClient++ service is running under the local system account, so it does not get login scripts/mapped drives when it logs on.

What is your goal in wanting to monitor a mapped drive?
Why don't you monitor the drive in the server that is sharing the drive?

I'll give an example of to see if that clears things up.

We have severs that synologys or qnap mapped to them for backup purposes - at this current moment we are not able to monitor the remaining or uses space of the drive and are frequently finding that they become full. If we had a way that nagios could monitor the space on the qnap it would therefore prevent this from occurring.


Chris

[jdalrymple]

Do you have to monitor remotely? This would be better:

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[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ grep cifs /etc/fstab
\\<mycifsserver>\<mycifsshare> /mnt/CIFSDRIVE cifs user,uid=500,rw,suid,username=<mycifsusername>,password=<mycifspassword> 0 0
[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p /mnt/CIFSDRIVE
DISK OK - free space: /mnt/CIFSDRIVE 6768823 MB (90% inode=-);| /mnt/CIFSDRIVE=734952MB;6753398;7128587;0;7503776

[bsivavani]

Hello All,

Just to add I have a urgent requirement to monitor Exchange Database (TESTDB) disk space and it is under Disk3 partition. Can you let me know what are configuration files that I need to modify.

Please suggest possible solution.

[hsmith]

I see you opened a new post. I am going to close this one.