Rich Rubel

Very nice, but needs minor tweaks

This tool provides pretty much all the status information you can get from your Synology box when run in Verbose mode, or has a nice single-line summary in normal mode. I'm using this on an 1812+. Two comments though: -- the location of snmpwalk and snmpget are hard-coded into the script so the script won't run if your system installs them in a different location, and there's not a good error message telling you they can't be found. I replaced those lines with a call to 'which snmpwalk' and 'which snmpget' which will at least pick up a version somewhere on your path. -- The section that monitors disk health is too strict when determining status. Drives that are set up as hot spares don't have to be "normal" -- they can be just initialized or even uninitialized and not be considered a failed unit. I had to modify that section as well to prevent critical failures due to the hot spare drives. At the least, those shouldn't be critical errors. Otherwise, this is a useful and informative plugin.

Reviewed 12 years ago