On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:23 AM, "Shiv. Nath" <prabh...@digital-infotech.net> wrote:
> > Dear Friends of List, > > Well, i understand perhaps someone will think if it is correct please to > ask this question here. But i did not find the better place than here. > Here is community of technical people and the question is technical as > well. > > Question: > > Is anyone aware of such program (software) that can alert me when hardware > changes? i.e. lets say i will monitor the hardware for a computer/server > using a program (i.e. Zabbix / Nagios) may be different program. Can i > receive the alert when hard disk for the computer has been changed? > > Any software anyone aware of? > > > _____________________________ You could use dmidecode in a nagios check to get some data like that. For example when a memory module fails , CPU speed , number of CPUs , number of memory modules ; but it's quite hardware vendor specific . As for hard drives you would need to check if the box has a raid controller and some vendor specific way to probe it . For example I use cciss_vol_status in both FreeBSD and Linux to monitor hp raid array health in a nagios check and it works well . For generic non raid controllers , Sata, IDE , scsi you can try using smartutils to monitor disk health . Other then that; if it's just a check to show if diskX is installed you could have a nagios check looking for the entry in /dev . Both modern FreeBSD and Linux use a devfs/udev system and add and remove entries in /dev when the device is attached or not . Hope that helps ---- Mark saad | mark.s...@longcount.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
