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Dear Experts,
I am using Nagios XI 2014.
I am trying to configure the hosts and services through wizards as much as possible.
When I try to add a host (Windows, for this case), I have to manually select the desired drive letters to be monitored.
For this, I will have to login to each server and identify the avaialble drive letters and configure.
Secondly, after initial discovery and configuration of drives, say a new drive is being added to that server via VM.
Will Nagios XI automatically detect the new drive added to the server and start monitoring it?
If not, please advise on the easiest way to configure the disk moitoring in Windows server.

Thanks,

Mohan

mohans_15 wrote:Will Nagios XI automatically detect the new drive added to the server and start monitoring it?

Nagios XI does not do that level of auto discovery.

The Windows wizards use the legacy check_nt commands which are very limited.

The check_nrpe commands are much more advanced and can monitor all drives in one service. WARNING: This works well until an extra drive is added and the performance graphs stop working because more datasources are present. Due to this one problem you are advised to have a service per drive.

Here's many examples of nrpe checks that will do this for you:
http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/c ... disk-usage

I also suggest you look at assigning services to hostgrpups, this way you can have one service defintion instead of one for every host. Here is some information on that:
http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/c ... n-services