monitor disks

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I am trying to detect whether a storage device is a disk or removable storage, however when I query hrStorageType.1 I get not supported. If I do an snmp walk the value comes up.

[root@zabbix100 ~]# snmpwalk -v 2c -c xxxxx server85 hrStorageType.1
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.1 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageRemovableDisk

Is there a problem with zabbix accepting an OID as the return value.

[norms]

I am certain those who use zabbix to monitor disk usage from snmp must have come across the issue of an alert for full disk when a CD is mounted. So there must be a way of preventing alerts being generated for non fixed disk issues. I use to use allocation units but I realised that media can be formatted with different block sizes. If you have a small number of systems then you could disable the monitoring on individual hosts, but for a large number of hosts this is tedious.

[norms]

solved

Problem fixed by using external check to pick up snmp string for disk type, then trigger modified to only fire if disk is a fixeddisk.