<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5726" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've hacked something together that seems to work using WSH and WMI (no smartmontools).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It displays the following for the "Service State Information":</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><TR><TD class=dataVar><FONT face=Arial size=2> Current Status: OK (for 0d 0h 14m 52s)</TD></TR> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><TR><TD class=dataVar valign="top"><FONT face=Arial size=2> Status Information:</TD><TD class=dataVal>SMART Status is OK<BR> Performance Data:</TD><TD class=dataVal>WDC WD1500HLFS-01G6U0 139 GB</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In "nsc.ini" on the client, I've made the following changes:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> uncommented NRPEListener.dll</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> added to </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>[External Scripts]<BR> check_smart_disk0=cscript.exe //T:30 //NoLogo "C:\Program Files\NSClient++\scripts\smart.vbs" 0<BR> check_smart_disk1=cscript.exe //T:30 //NoLogo "C:\Program Files\NSClient++\scripts\smart.vbs" 1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The file "smart.vbs" contains:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> set args = wscript.arguments<BR> drive = Cint(args(0))</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> strComputer = "."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _<BR> & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer _<BR> & "\root\cimv2")</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR> Set diskset = objWMIService.ExecQuery _<BR> ("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive")</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> For Each disk in diskset<BR> If disk.index = drive Then<BR> Select Case Disk.Status<BR> Case "OK"<BR> WScript.Echo "SMART Status is OK| " & Disk.Model & " " & Int(Disk.Size/1073741824) & " GB"<BR> WScript.Quit(0)<BR> Case Else<BR> Wscript.Echo "SMART Status is " & Disk.Status<BR> Wscript.quit(1)<BR> End Select<BR> End If<BR> next</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are actually a bunch of different error states, but I figure I want to know about anything other than "OK". I kept the level as "WARNING", as I don't know if it's going to be useful until I get more experience with the real-life disk error messages. I'm aware that disks sometimes die with no warning from SMART. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've never used visual basic before, so feel free to improve on this. I just cobbled together little snippets of code I found via google.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the Nagios server side, the service and hostgroup definitions look like the following:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>define service{<BR> use generic-service<BR> hostgroup_name check_smart_disk0<BR> service_description SMART Disk 0<BR> check_command check_nrpe!check_smart_disk0<BR> check_interval 720<BR> }<BR>define service{<BR> use generic-service<BR> hostgroup_name check_smart_disk1<BR> service_description SMART Disk 1<BR> check_command check_nrpe!check_smart_disk1<BR> check_interval 720<BR> }</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>define hostgroup{<BR> hostgroup_name check_smart_disk0<BR> alias Windows SMART Disk0 status<BR> members host1, host2, host3<BR> }<BR>define hostgroup{<BR> hostgroup_name check_smart_disk1<BR> alias Windows SMART Disk1 status<BR> members host2<BR> }<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do have to know ahead of time the number of disks to check on the client. Seems to be working so far.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-e</DIV></FONT></TD></TR> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=epearce@amberpoint.com href="mailto:epearce@amberpoint.com">Eric Pearce</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=amontibello@gmail.com href="mailto:amontibello@gmail.com">Anthony Montibello</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:14 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] Windows disk health monitoring with smartmontoolsl/NSClient++?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=body> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for the tip - I think I'm making some progress, i.e. </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2> C:\Program Files\NSClient++>"nsclient++.exe" CheckWMI Select Status from Win32_DiskDrive</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2> \NSClient++.cpp(370) Attempting to start NSCLient++ - 0.3.5.2 2008-09-24 </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \NSClient++.cpp(476) NSCLient++ - 0.3.5.2 2008-09-24 Started! </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \CheckWMI.cpp(306) |--------+ </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \CheckWMI.cpp(307) | Status | </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \CheckWMI.cpp(308) |--------+ </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \CheckWMI.cpp(317) | OK | </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \CheckWMI.cpp(319) |--------+ </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \NSClient++.cpp(530) Attempting to stop NSCLient++ - 0.3.5.2 2008-09-24 </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>l \NSClient++.cpp(589) NSCLient++ - 0.3.5.2 2008-09-24 Stopped succcessfully </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>But I dont' see how to turn this output into something useful for Nagios, i.e. "OK", "WARNING", "CRITICAL". It appears that the possible return values for "Status" are one of the following: OK,Error,Degraded,Unknown,Pred Fail, Starting, Stopping, Service, Stressed, NonRecover, No Contact or Lost Comm. I would be happy with "OK" resulting in a Nagios "OK" and anything else being a "WARNING". Ideally, "WARNING" followed by the "Status" output from WMI. Is there a way to do this using the NSClient "filter" and Max/Min syntax? </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bonus question: What do you do if you have multiple drives? I don't see any obvious way to specify a drive to check.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>-e</FONT> </P></DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=amontibello@gmail.com href="mailto:amontibello@gmail.com">Anthony Montibello</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=epearce@amberpoint.com href="mailto:epearce@amberpoint.com">Eric Pearce</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:58 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] Windows disk health monitoring with smartmontoolsl/NSClient++?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>USe WMI: </DIV> <DIV>the path to the smart data:</DIV> <DIV>root/Cimv2/Win32_DiskDrive/</DIV> <DIV>[Instance] --> Status<BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hope this helps</DIV> <DIV>Tony (Author of NC_Net)<BR></DIV> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Eric Pearce <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:epearce@amberpoint.com">epearce@amberpoint.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV bgcolor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to get SMART disk health status for Windows machines. It looks like smartctl would work fine on Windows - has someone got it working with NSClient++?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've found some people asking about this in the list archives, but haven't found any concrete examples.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All I'm looking for is a basic "OK" or "something bad is going to happen soon" alert from Nagios.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-e</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV><BR>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>This SF.net email is sponsored by:<BR>SourcForge Community<BR>SourceForge wants to tell your story.<BR><A href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword" target=_blank>http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nagios-users mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A><BR><A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target=_blank>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A><BR>::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.<BR>::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>