Tag: disk

Icinga2 Monitoring for Windows Disks Not Working [Resolved]

Among the many possible services to monitor a Windows based operating system using Icinga2, the service that utilizes the check_command of disk-windows has not quite worked as expected.  It may have been a combination of things that was done incorrectly over the years, or maybe plugin versioning. In any case, a snippet below demonstrates a thought to be working service…

Read More »

Add a new hard disk without rebooting in Linux

Having added a virtual hard drive to a virtual machine, the fdisk -cul command doesn’t reveal any new drives.  There are a few ways to get Linux to recognize this new drive without having to reboot the computer. A tried and true method that I have used on many occasions is this approach.  The problem with this approach is that…

Read More »