A nagios-check-hddtemp documentation

nagios-check-hddtemp is a Nagios-plugin that uses hddtemp (www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php) to check disk temperature over the network

Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Licensing
• Contacts

Installation

• Obtain your copy of source code from git repository: git clone https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-check-hddtemp.git. Or download latest release from https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-check-hddtemp/tags.
• Run python ./setup.py install from repository source tree or unpacked archive under root user. Or use pip: pip install nagios-check-hddtemp.

Configuration

• Read and understand Nagios documentation.
• Create Nagios command and service definitions like this:

# "check_hddtemp" command
    define command
    {
        command_name check_hddtemp
        command_line $USER1$/check_hddtemp -s $ARG1$ -p $ARG2$ -d $ARG3$ -w $ARG4$ -c $ARG4$
    }

# "check_hddtemp" service for /dev/sda
define service
{
    use                 local-service
    host_name           localhost
    service_description HDD Temperature /dev/sda
    check_command       check_hddtemp!127.0.0.1!7634!/dev/sda!40!50
}

Without --devices option script check all devices from hddtemp response and return priority based global status:

• critical
• warning
• unknown
• ok

Also, --devices option can take comma separated list of devices to check.

If you want receive devices performance data, add -P argument to command_line.

Licensing

nagios-check-hddtemp is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For complete license text see COPYING file.

Contacts

Project website: https://github.com/vint21h/nagios-check-hddtemp

Author: Alexei Andrushievich <vint21h@vint21h.pp.ua>

For other authors list see AUTHORS file.