Disk Health Integration

Monitoring the Disk's health is crucial to ensure server availability and accessibility. Xitoring provides a comprehensive monitoring solution to monitor all types of physical disks including SSDs, HDDs, and raid setups, on both Linux and Windows servers.

Enable Disk health Integration on Linux

Before proceeding with enabling Disk health integration on Xitogent we need to make sure that the smartctl (smartmontools package) is installed. make sure lsblk command is included and working on your operating system.

1. Run the following command

on Ubuntu and Debian:
sudo apt-get install smartmontools

on CentOS and Redhat:
sudo yum install smartmontools

1. Now we can proceed with enabling Disk's health integration on Xitogent. run xitogent integrate and select Disk Health.

2. Xitogent will test integration and set up the rest automatically. After a minute you can see disk health data on your Server overview.

Enable Disk Health Integration on Windows Server

There's no requirement or Software prerequisites to enable this integration on Windows.

1. You can proceed with enabling Disk's health integration on Xitogent. In PowerShell or CLI run xitogent integrate and select Disk Health.

2. Xitogent will test integration and set up the rest automatically. After a minute you can see disk health data on your Server overview.

Setup Triggers for Disk Health integration

Xitogent also enables users to create Triggers for Disk health integration and set up incidents based on specific parameters. These parameters include:

Disk Health

For instance, users can create a Disk health trigger for all disks, or specific ones, that generates an incident if the disk is not healthy. On the Trigger page, users can view the current value for each parameter and configure their alerts accordingly.