Netapp clusters monitoring.

[bojha]

Hi All,

We are trying to setup monitoring for our two netapp clusters which are having two nodes each. and i found the below plugin from nagios exchange i.e check_netapp3.pl (http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... p3/details) as per my understanding this plugin would point to the individual node and will fetch the status. but the requirement is to monitor in the cluster mode ?

below are cluster structure.
MG11 -pp.ppp.ppp.pp - cluster
MG11-01a - xx.xxx.xxx.xx- node
MG11-01b - yy.yyy.yyy.yy - node

MG21 - kk.kkk.kk.kk - cluster
MG21-01a - zz.zzz.zzz.zz - node
MG21-01b - xx.xxx.xxx.xx - node

Could any one please help me on the below things ?
1. Can we use the above plugin to monitor the netapp storage in cluster ? If no please suggest me if any plugin is available to monitor the same .
2. Can we point to the cluster IP not to the node and get the metrics status ?

Thanks in advance,

Bijay Ojha

[abrist]

The netapp plugin you linked checks based on hostname/ip. If your cluster has an ip, check that instead of one of the node ips.

[bojha]

Hi abrist,

Thank you very much for the quick replay.

Let me proceed to the next step for configuring the monitoring for cluster. if will face any issues on the way then will keep you posted.



Thanks,

Bijay

[tmcdonald]

We'll keep the thread open for you.

[WillemDH]

Just discovered this new plugin for NetApp: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... de/details

Did you try this one? it uses api isntead of snmp. Seems more reliable to me. But I have issues installing the NetApp SDK on the Nagios server..

[slansing]

Good catch WillemDH, that is a nice alternative.

[WillemDH]

In the meantime I got it working by the way. it seems you must use MSDK 5.1 and not MSDK 5.2.

[tmcdonald]

bojha, let us know if this works for you.

[WillemDH]

Hi,

This plugin works fine in the meantime with us.. Small note is that you need to use version 5.1 of the NetApp SDK, becaude they seem to have removed the system-get-version tag from v5.2 of the SDK.

Grtz.

Willem

[slansing]

That sounds like a good note to add to the exchange page, we'll see how this works out for Boja.