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Hello support forum

I got Nagios xi installed on a virtual server and I have setup several machines to be monitored that includes physical and virtual machines running Windows server OS and client OS. Now my question is can Nagios xi generate a warning when a disk fails in a RAID5 setup on your physical machines? Does it support this natively or is a plugin requierd to be installed? We haven't tested to pull a disk out of the system yet because we are only working remote on our servers and it would be a hassle to go to our server hall just to test this with Nagios xi. This feature is very important to us and we hope to get it to work with Nagios xi.

The first thing that is important is the brand machine you have. If for example you use Dell servers, its quite easy to monitor using the dell openmanage plugin. For some other brands there are plugins as well.

If you made a software raid 5 it should be possible to monitor with wmi.

Well then I guess Dell openmanage needs to be installed on the Dell server with the raid and yes we are using Dell servers all of them. We really dont want to use Dell openmanage because that is so annoying to administre

I'm not sure what the OID would be but you may be able to monitor it with SNMP

Looks like there are several various implimentations on the Exchange
SNMP Raid