Chapter 13. Monitoring Red Hat Storage

Monitoring of Red Hat Storage servers is built on Nagios platform to monitor Red Hat Storage trusted storage pool, hosts, volumes, and services. You can monitor utilization, status, alerts and notifications for status and utilization changes.

For more information on Nagios software, refer Nagios Documentation.

Using Nagios, the physical resources, logical resources, and processes (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Swap, cluster, volume, brick, Host, Volumes, Brick, nfs, shd, quotad, ctdb, smb, glusterd, quota, geo-replication, self-heal,and server quorum) can be monitored. You can view the utilization and status thorugh Nagios Server GUI.

Red Hat Storage trusted storage pool monitoring can be setup in one of the three deployment scenarios listed below:

This chapter describes the procedures for deploying Nagios on Red Hat Storage node and Red Hat Enterprise Linux node. For information on deploying Nagios on Red Hat Storage Console node, see Red Hat Storage Console Administration Guide.

The following diagram illustrates deployment of Nagios on Red Hat Storage node.

The following diagram illustrates deployment of Nagios on Red Hat Enterprise Linux node.