Sun Solaris–Sun Disks

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This connector provides physical disk information (status and error count) on Sun Solaris systems through the iostat -En utility. Supports only official Sun disks.

Target

Typical platform: Sun Fire (SPARC)

Operating system: Sun Solaris

Instrumentation layer: Sun Solaris system commands (iostat, dd)

Technology used: System commands

Discovered objects

Disk controllers (SEN_HW_DISKCONTROLLER)

Physical disks (SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK)

Parameters collected

SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK / Error Count

SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK / Status

NoteThis connector is able to monitor the local host and/or a remote system.

Credentials

This connector probably requires root privileges for its proper operation. You therefore will need to configure the product to use the root login/password to execute external commands.
Alternatively, you can configure the product to use the sudo utility for the command: /usr/sbin/dd.


See Also

Platforms & Connectors