Monitoring Isilon with XI

[sekelmaan]

Hello,

I am new to Nagios. I have multiple PB of Isilon storage that I would like to monitor and maintain trending data on. I am particularly interested in monitoring the clusters down to the disk levels. I would like to be alerted when diskloads get high or start thrashing.

I have installed XI.

I have found an Isilon plugin, but I cannot tell if it will do what I require: http://verypowerful.info/home/monitorin ... ith-nagios

The plugin installation appears rather complicated. Even the first step copying the .cfg file to the etc/objects directory is not correct as there is no object directory in XI.

Or is the etc/components the XI equivalent directory to the Nagios etc/objects directory?

I wonder if anyone knows if this has been done successfully with XI? Should I try with Nagios light?

Thank you for all and any help.

-Christiaan.

[slansing]

This plugin should work fine, on this step:

The plugin installation appears rather complicated. Even the first step copying the .cfg file to the etc/objects directory is not correct as there is no object directory in XI.

You are actually copying one of their example service configuration files. You could open this file and mirror what it's definitions are into a server you are creating via the CCM. Or you could place it in:

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/usr/local/nagios/etc/static/

And use a static configuration. Just be sure that you alter the cfg file to use definitions that are valid for your environment "contact names / host names / time periods" to name a few.