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Nagios configuration definitions below allow you to check status of HP UPS systems via Nagios. Requirements: SNMP is enabled at UPS systems and Net-SNMP is installed at the Nagios host.

The perl script below allows you to check sensors of HP storage systems via Nagios. It displays status of all available sensors and returns WARNING/CRITICAL if at least one sensor reports it. Requirements: SNMP is enabled at storage systems and Net-SNMP is installed at the Nagios host.

The perl script below allows you to check sensors of HP switches via Nagios. It displays status of all available sensors and returns WARNING/CRITICAL if at least one sensor reports it. Requirements: SNMP is enabled at switches and Net-SNMP is installed at the Nagios host.

Nagios BPI (Business Process Intelligence) is a powerful grouping addon that lets you to build a hierarchical view of your Nagios implementation by using complex rules. You can also use Nagios BPI as an ordinary Nagios plugin to introduce complex logic into your checks. You may follow steps below if you want to integrate Nagios BPI into your Nagwin environment:

• Download Nagios BPI

• Copy contents of nagiosbpi directory to <Nagwin inst.dir>/var/html/nagiosbpi

• Update <Nagwin inst.dir>/var/html/nagiosbpi/constants.cfg:

If your Windows 2008 R2 file server performs too badly (response time in tens of seconds or minutes!), you may try to turn off TCP offloading. Our setup had a virtual 2008 server run by a Citrix XenServer hypervisor using a NetApp NAS appliance as virtual storage. Our raw disk tests showed no performance penalty related to hypervisor/NAS systems. However, response times regarding to access to shared disks were terrible (5 min to start an application!). We have applied Service Pack 1 and all file services related post-SP1 patches available without observing any improvement.