Windows 2012 R2 RAID SMART Status

[jkinning]

I have several Windows servers located in our DR data center. These servers are running NSClient++ 0.4.3.131 and I am trying to figure out how I can monitor the SMART status or get notified when a physical drive fails. Since these are in an unmanned data center Nagios is the best method to provide drive stats. These drives are RAID but we would like to know when a drive is starting to fail and figured SMART is the best method of obtaining that information. We prefer to use the NSClient and not travel down WMI or SNMP. I found some other plugins by a quick Google search but those appear to be for Linux servers. Is there an easy way to pull SMART information with the NSClient ++ and have Nagios alert on failing drives?

[hsmith]

After doing a little looking around, this seems to be the most promising piece of information I found: http://forums.nsclient.org/t/feeding-sm ... ios/2397/3. Do you have a way of pulling the information that you're looking for from the Windows command line/powershell? You can script almost anything in NSClient, the big issue is just finding a way to get it.

[WillemDH]

In my experience, monitoring hardware is generally best done with the server hardware manufacturer's software. For example:
For HP => https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... hp/details
For Fujitsu => https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... 29/details

[lmiltchev]

Thanks for the help, Willem!