NCPA to monitor all disks on windows server

[Bala.Mutyam]

Hi there,

Is it possible to configure NCPA to monitor all disks/drives on a windows server? I've seen some old posts related to this back in 2018 not recently.

Thanks
Bala

[ssax]

There is no built-in NCPA API endpoint that allows you to check all disks in a single check at this time.

Your only option would be to find a plugin that does it and use the plugins API endpoint to call the plugin, see here for more info:

https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php#ap ... es-plugins

If you would like that added to NCPA, please open a feature request here as there doesn't look like there's an open one for this:

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/ncpa/issues

Thank you.

[cdienger]

@Bala.Mutyam I pinged dev and we'll be reopening https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/ncpa/issues/178 so there is no need to open a new feature request.

[Bala.Mutyam]

@ssax Thank you. Would you suggest a plugin which works with NCPA please?

[Bala.Mutyam]

@cdienger: Thank you.

[lmiltchev]

You could try using a 3rd party plugin, called check_multi, which can combine multiple checks into one. I haven't used it lately, and I am not sure if it's going to work well with the latest version of XI, but you could give it a try. It is listed on the Nagios Exchange here:

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... ti/details

The one, listed on GitHub could a a newer version - you can check this one as well:

https://github.com/flackem/check_multi

Once you have your check in place, tested from the command line, you could add a command and a service to Nagios XI by following the document below:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Hope this helps.

[Bala.Mutyam]

@lmiltchev - Thanks for the update. Actually i'm looking for a plugin to monitor windows server disks/drives with one check.

[lmiltchev]

This is what check_multi does - combines multiple checks into one.

Example service:

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define service {
    host_name                OldWorkstation-NCPA
    service_description      Check Drives
    use                      xiwizard_generic_service
    check_command            check_multi!!!!!!!!
    contacts                 nagiosadmin
    register                 1
}

Example command:

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define command {
    command_name    check_multi
    command_line     $USER1$/check_multi -f $USER1$/multi
}

Example config (with a couple of checks):

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command[Disk_C]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ncpa.py -H x.x.x.x -t 'mytoken' -P 5693 -M 'disk/logical/C:|' -w 70 -c 90
command[Disk_D]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ncpa.py -H x.x.x.x -t 'mytoken' -P 5693 -M 'disk/logical/D:|' -w 70 -c 90

Example of the plugin, run from the CLI:

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[nagios@main-nagios-xi libexec]$/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_multi -f multi
OK - 2 plugins checked, 2 ok
[ 1] Disk_C OK: Used disk space was 58.20 % (Used: 62.58 GiB, Free: 44.86 GiB, Total: 107.44 GiB)  [Disk_C perfdata discarded for 'used': bad UOM 'GiB' in data '62.58GiB;75;97;' ]
[ 2] Disk_D OK: Used disk space was 7.90 % (Used: 74.01 GiB, Free: 857.27 GiB, Total: 931.29 GiB)  [Disk_D perfdata discarded for 'used': bad UOM 'GiB' in data '74.01GiB;652;838;' ]|check_multi::check_multi::plugins=2 time=0.266985

Example of the service in the GUI:

example-01.jpg

Is this something that you are looking for?

[Bala.Mutyam]

@lmiltchev: Hi, thanks for that but that's not i'm after. I don't to combine multiple check, just a check monitor all disk on windows server.

[lmiltchev]

Unfortunately, there is no such option in NCPA. If you could find a script, e.g. PowerShell script, that can monitor all drives on Windows (locally) via one check, you could call it via NCPA from the Nagios XI server.

Example:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ncpa.py -H <client ip> -t <token> -M 'plugins/<your script>

Currently, this is the only option that I could offer.