HARD DISK MONITORING

Tutorial: How to use Hard Disk Sentinel with Nagios

   

This page shows how it is possible to connect Hard Disk Sentinel Professional and Nagios: how Hard Disk Sentinel Professional can provide hard disk status information - and how Nagios can accept and manage the collected status information.

Download: check_hddsentinel.zip (check_hddsentinel.vbs (c) Guilherme Orcutt)

Images with Centreon front-end for Nagios

   

Preconditions

• Nagios installed and running.

• Hard Disk Sentinel Professional installed, registered and activated

Configure Hard Disk Sentinel and Nagios

• In Hard Disk Sentinel, open Configuration -> Advanced options. Select "Generate and update XML file" and select a Path

  

• Install NSClient++

  Source: http://www.nsclient.org/

  

  check_nrpe has to be checked, others are recommended (for other checks).

  Password is not necessary for nrpe checks.

• After the installation: Copy the script to the NSClient++ scripts folder (Usual path: c:\Program Files\NSClient++\scripts)

• Configure NSClient++

  Open the nsclient.ini (Usual path: c:\Program Files\NSClient++) and add at end of the .ini file:

  [/settings/NRPE/server]
  allow arguments = 1
  
  [/settings/external scripts]
  allow arguments = 1
  
  [/settings/external scripts/scripts]
  check_hddsentinel = cscript.exe //T:30 //NoLogo "pathToScript" /file:$ARG1$ /drive:$ARG2$ /warningtemp:$ARG3$ /criticaltemp:$ARG4$ /warninghealth:$ARG5$ /criticalhealth:$ARG6$
  

  Restart the NSClient++ service after the changes.

  Notes:

  /file: XML file Path
  /drive: HDD Number in HDSentinel

  You can also replace $ARGx$ by a value. For example I have decided to replace $ARG1$ by the XML file Path, so I do not have to add it as an argument for each Nagios-service. In this case do not forget to replace "$ARG2$" by "$ARG1$" (and so forth).

• Configure Nagios

  Add the following command to Nagios command.cfg:

  define command{
  
  command_name check_hddsentinel
  
  command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 20 -c check_hddsentinel -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$
  
  }

  Important: The number of arguments in the command.cfg is the same as in the nsclient.ini

  Note: -t == timeout (in s)

  Note2: Command in Nagios with 5 Arguments (without XML file path)

  

• Add services to your host config file:

  define service{
  
  use yourServiceTemplate
  
  host_name HDSentinelHost
  
  service_description descriptionOfService
  
  check_command check_hddsentinel!xmlPath! drive!warnTemp!critTemp!warnHealth!critHealth
  
  }

  Note by Editor: Nagios doesn't like spaces within the parameters! Make sure to use the short version of path/filename in case it contain spaces, like: c:/PROGRA~1/HARDDI~1/HDSENT~1.XML Alternatively, you may specify a folder in the beginning (step 1) where there is no space, for example: C:\HardDiskSentinel , C:\HDS or similar.

  Example with XML file path:

  check_hddsentinel!c:/PROGRA~1/HARDDI~1/HDSENT~1.XML!1!45!48!80!60

  Example without XML file path:

  

  Note: Do not forget to define the host!

• All done! Restart Nagios.

Screenshots

Nagios Service Overview

Service Information

Thanks for Guilherme Orcutt for the script and Jakob Hirschl for the tutorial and information !