hi, you mention you are using HP's management agents on ESX - if so, check out these SNMP plugins to replace check_snmp -
http://nagios.manubulon.com/ I'm not sure if you can get any SMART drive status from snmpd/HP, but you can check RAID status on local disks, and there are also ways to check ESX datastore free space usage too. good luck & cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: Max Hetrick [mailto:maxhetr...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 10:39 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to Monitor VMware ESX Server and StorageUnits On 01/05/2011 10:28 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > Are there other possibilities of connecting Nagios to ESX and MSA > devices? I'd appreciate your input. Have a look at the check_esx.pl plugin. You can do quite a bit with it. http://www.op5.org/community/plugin-inventory/op5-projects/check-esx-plu gin It just requires the VMware Perl SDK kit to be installed on the machine you want to connect from, in this instance, Nagios. Regards, Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null