Hi, I am new to checkmk and just installed the software today. I would like to use checkmk to monitor how often my hard drives are consuming more electricity (spinup time).
I use this tool: GitHub - adelolmo/hd-idle: Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility which does record data to syslog grep 'hd-idle' /var/log/syslog
Example entries:
Nov 13 00:24:33 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spinup
Nov 13 00:28:33 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spindown
Nov 13 04:01:35 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spinup
Nov 13 04:01:35 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spinup
Nov 13 04:02:35 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdc spinup
Nov 13 04:06:35 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spindown
Nov 13 04:14:36 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spinup
Nov 13 04:19:36 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdc spindown
Nov 13 04:19:36 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spindown
Nov 13 04:20:38 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spindown
Nov 13 21:46:46 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spinup
Nov 13 21:46:46 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spinup
Nov 13 21:49:46 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spindown
Nov 13 21:49:47 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spindown
Nov 14 04:22:50 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spinup
Nov 14 04:23:50 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spinup
Nov 14 04:26:50 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spindown
Nov 14 04:26:52 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spindown
Nov 14 11:11:56 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spinup
Nov 14 11:14:56 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spindown
Nov 14 12:36:57 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spinup
Nov 14 12:39:57 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spindown
Nov 14 21:47:01 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spinup
Nov 14 21:47:01 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spinup
Nov 14 21:50:01 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spindown
Nov 14 21:50:02 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spindown
Nov 15 00:57:04 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spinup
Nov 15 00:57:04 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdc spinup
Nov 15 00:57:04 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spinup
Nov 15 00:57:04 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spinup
Nov 15 01:00:04 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdc spindown
Nov 15 01:00:05 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdd spindown
Nov 15 01:00:06 nas hd-idle[1319]: sde spindown
Nov 15 01:00:06 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spindown
Nov 15 01:14:07 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spinup
Nov 15 01:17:07 nas hd-idle[1319]: sdb spindown
As you can see “sdb” “sde” are all hard drive identifiers. Ideally I wish to monitor and graph this for each hard drive on this system automatically; using the timestamp to measure % total time - I did try to setup this method via log monitoring mentioned in this video but it is not exactly what I want since it doesn’t show % usage (timestamp tracking): Episode 22: Monitoring logfiles with Checkmk - YouTube
How would you suggest I set this up? Does anyone have hd-idle already and do this kind of monitoring perhaps?
