Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Monitoring a RAID or other hardware device

In this recipe, we'll learn a general strategy for monitoring the properties of hardware devices. Because of the different ways that vendors implement their hardware, this tends to be less straightforward than monitoring standard network services.

There are at least four general approaches to this problem.

Getting ready

You will need to know some specifics about the hardware that you want to monitor, including the model number. You should preferably also have a Nagios Core 3.0 server that was compiled with Net-SNMP libraries available to build the check_snmp plugin, part of the Nagios Plugins set.

How to do it...

We can find a way to monitor an arbitrary hardware device on a local or remote machine as follows: ...