Nowadays small storage servers are a cheap solution for store backups and SME storage server.
Recently Small business with various Sinology Servers in different locations asked me if there any way to control a few parameters like free storage space.
Quickly I remember that zabbix could be a good solution for this scenario, I get a Sinology DS216J and start checking if where posible to install a zabbix agent inside.
Like Qnap these devices are small ARM processors with a customized linux distribution installed.
The process was simply, Just attach a hard disk and update to latest firmware, remember newer is always better.
After First steps, we will need to get a terminal access.
This is easy
Login as admin in your sinology web interface an go to Control Panel -> Advanced Mode -> Terminal & SNMP and enable SSH service
from a linux terminal or using putty we will login in the sinology
ssh admin@'sinology ip'
for example ssh admin@192.168.100.1
now we are inside the nas linux, first we will need to change to root user
sudo su -
now we can install Entware-ng that is a package repository only a few steps are needed
create a dir to store packages
mkdir -p /volume1/@entware-ng/opt
change /opt dir to the previous created
rm -rf /opt ln -sf /volume1/@entware-ng/opt /opt
now we will execute the repo installer, in our case we are runing an armv7
wget -O - http://pkg.entware.net/binaries/armv7/installer/entware_install.sh | /bin/sh
next step is integrade entware with our profile
just edit /etc/profile and append these line at the end
. /opt/etc/profile
now we should reboot our nas and login again as admin
and start zabbix installation
opkg update
and we can install zabbix agent
opkg install zabbix-agentd
your zabbix configuration file will be at
/opt/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
and you can start and stop zabbix agent launching this command
/opt/etc/init.d/S07zabbix_agentd start /opt/etc/init.d/S07zabbix_agentd stop
references:
https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS