<tt>> Objective:</tt> <tt>> Is Nagios capable of re-scanning the disk drives or recognize if > there are newly added disks/removed disks from existing servers that > are being monitored in Nagios.</tt> <tt>No, that's not possible out-of-the-box and I cannot imagine</tt> <tt>anyone working on something like this - it's just not feasible.</tt> <tt>Nagios itself is independent of the remote machine and its</tt> <tt>agent. You can even write your own agent if you want to,</tt> <tt>for Nagios it's all the same - just a check that gives</tt> <tt>some results back. So to have a mechanism describe by you,</tt> <tt>Nagios would need to know about all and every agent out</tt> <tt>there and how to remotely check and configure it - that's</tt> <tt>out of the scope of the purpose of Nagios.</tt> <tt>Though there is the possibility with most remote agents,</tt> <tt>that you can trigger an "check all disks that are present"</tt> <tt>check. There are 2 turndowns in this though:</tt> <tt>- those checks tend to check DVD/CD drives too - bad idea</tt> <tt>- if you add or remove disks, the number of results returned</tt> <tt> will differ - making pnp4nagios puke, as it expects always </tt> <tt> the same number of results</tt> <tt>Your turn to choose what you want - both sides suck a little ;)</tt> <tt>S</tt> GFKL Financial Services AG Vorstand: Dr. Peter Jänsch (Vors.), Jürgen Baltes, Dr. Tom Haverkamp Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Georg F. Thoma Sitz: Limbecker Platz 1, 45127 Essen, Amtsgericht Essen, HRB 13522