Recently I’ve been creating Icinga (a port of Nagios) health checks for various ZFS pools running on Solaris 11.2 storage servers, I found this great plugin however found it only alerted based on space remaining within the zpool, which while useful was not enough. I was not able to find a good check that would create an alert if any of the READ, WRITE or CKSUM values in ‘zpool status’ changed from zero to anything else, indicating a problem, so wrote my own health check.
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Tag Archives: Monitoring
Nagios check ZFS zpool status for READ WRITE CKSUM errors
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on July 15, 2015
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How to check memory usage in Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 22, 2015
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In the Linux operating system it is important to have enough free physical memory (RAM) available for your processes which need to run. If this memory runs out, swap space will start to be used next, which will result in slower performance as I/O operations will need to be written to disk instead. If both main memory and swap become full your Linux system can completely freeze up.
By checking and monitoring the amount of memory in use and confirming there is enough free memory to service requests we can ensure that processes continue to run optimally.
Compiling NRPE and nagios-plugins for Solaris 11.2
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 1, 2015
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I have some Solaris 11.2 storage servers which run a number of ZFS pools, I wanted to monitor these through NRPE via Nagios. To do this I needed to compile NRPE and nagios-plugins from source, this article covers how this was done.
Monitoring multiple back end Nagios/Icinga servers with Thruk
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on February 4, 2015
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Thruk acts as a central web interface allowing you to monitor multiple backends such as Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken via the Livestatus API. I had some difficulty getting it connecting to my back end servers so here are the steps I took to get it done. By the end of this guide you should be able to add your back end monitoring servers into Thruk, we’ll cover adding an Icinga server in this instance however the steps will be very similar for a Nagios server, given Icinga is a Nagios port.