<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 5:15 AM Schorschi Decker <<a href="mailto:schorschi@dc.rr.com">schorschi@dc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Moreover, ESXi already has extensive monitoring explicitly designed to <br>
integrate to vSphere vCenter in a production environment for such. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This monitoring, Schorschi mentions, is also available remotely using the CIM interface (defaults to tcp/5989) when enabled. <br></div><div>You can use check_esxi_hardware monitoring plugin to make use of that so you don't need to have vSphere open.</div><div>Most servers allow monitoring of local storage, but SMART errors are not always detected. <br></div><div>Some vendors offer deeper drive monitoring and then present the drive with a pre-emptive failure (which is triggered by an internal threshold of errors in the SMART table).<br></div><div> </div></div></div>