I hope this isn't too much of a daft question - I'm trying to monitor uptime of a western digital NAS, the only way I can think of to do this is will the custom exe/script sensor running on my core server, but I have no idea how to get the output I already have into a file/format that PRTG can monitor on. So far, my script calls putty to create an ssh connection and writes the uptime formatted into a text file containing just a single value. The value is simply HH:MM representing uptime of the device.

Obviously I can add this script to the folder that PRTG can pick up when I add a sensor, but how do I get PRTG to recognise the value generated?

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Hello,

If you are looking to monitor the time your NAS is running you can use the SNMP System Uptime Sensor if the NAS supports SNMP.

The returned data for standard EXE/Script sensors must be in the following format: "value:message". You'll find more information on this at "Setup > PRTG API > Custom Sensors" in your PRTG Webinterface.

Kind Regards,
Timo Dambach
Paessler Tech Support


Oct, 2019 - Permalink

Sadly it doesn't support SNMP, that would be too easy...

It works now though - I installed Putty on the server and am running ssh through a batch file via Windows Task Scheduler to output the uptime to a text file every 5 minutes. I have created a custom sensor script to take that value and pass it to PRTG for those lovely graphs.

It means I can be alerted if the device unexpectedly reboots but isn't off for long enough to trigger a failure from the simple ping sensors, which was the goal.

The problem I was having is that running the putty SSH command in the PRTG custom sensor script was failing, doing that part separately solved it.

I do love this product!

Stuart


Oct, 2019 - Permalink