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Synology Plugin

The Synology plugin registers Synology NAS targets as Konduo resources and exposes DSM status, RAID/volume, disk, fan, power, temperature, network, and storage IO signals.

Highlights

  • Supports both Prometheus snmp_exporter and Konduo-managed direct SNMP collection.
  • Maps raw MIB metrics into Synology logical metrics.
  • Focuses dashboards on NAS health, capacity, disk health, storage IO, and network link/throughput.
  • Checks SNMP target setup, metric source linkage, required metric coverage, label model, and historical risk in diagnostics.
  • Adds read-only NAS evidence tabs for storage inventory, disk/RAID health, DSM update and UPS hints, capacity top lists, and data-protection boundaries.

Before Registration

  • Prepare NAS host, SNMP port, SNMP version, community, or SNMPv3 security settings.
  • In managed mode, the Konduo backend must reach the NAS SNMP endpoint directly.
  • When Prometheus is the managed collection write target, run Prometheus with --web.enable-remote-write-receiver.
  • In external mode, confirm snmp_exporter module and Prometheus scrape labels first.

Operations Tips

  • Labels such as diskID, raidName, and ifDescr are device evidence, not Konduo resource IDs.
  • Review volume utilization with RAID status and disk temperature/health to avoid missing capacity risk.
  • When terminal access is enabled, consider access policy and audit requirements.

Operator Views

  • The NAS health view highlights DSM system status, temperature, fan, power, and upgrade state.
  • Storage views combine RAID/volume state, utilization, free/total size, hot spare, and disk health.
  • Disk and IO views separate disk health, temperature, bad sectors, retry count, and physical/logical IO load.
  • Network views expose Ethernet link state, throughput, and error/drop evidence while filtering loopback, Docker, and system interfaces by default.
  • Inventory and evidence views expose metric-backed storage pool, volume, disk, and IO query blueprints. They also show which NAS details require DSM API evidence, such as shared-folder capacity, snapshot/replication state, backup job history, reboot-required markers, and RAID rebuild progress.

Diagnostics And Alerts

  • Diagnostics separate SNMP target reachability, module and label coverage, required metric coverage, hardware risk, and historical risk.
  • Alert rules cover system faults, high temperature, fan/power faults, disk health, SSD life, bad sectors, RAID/volume state, utilization, and network link.
  • Disk, RAID/volume, and interface alerts identify the affected diskID, raidName, or ifDescr; alert details and notifications also include localized diagnostic guidance and a recommended action.
  • Managed SNMP collection and external snmp_exporter mode use the same raw MIB names, so the same mapping pack applies.
  • UPS hints use logical metrics for upsInfoStatus, upsBatteryChargeValue, and upsInfoLoadValue when the scrape profile exposes them. Direct managed SNMP UPS collection requires validated device OIDs before it can emit those raw samples.
  • SNMP labels can vary by device model and DSM/exporter version; validate coverage on the actual customer device.

Management Boundary

  • The plugin focuses on NAS observation and limited access-path support, not automated DSM configuration changes.
  • Volume create/delete, RAID changes, disk initialization, package management, and backup-job control are outside CE scope.
  • Shared-folder capacity rows, snapshot/replication status, backup success/failure history, live rebuild progress, and reboot-required confirmation stay read-only boundaries unless a DSM API-backed extension provides the evidence.
  • Enabling terminal access should not turn into arbitrary DSM automation.
  • SNMP community, SNMPv3 passwords, and terminal credentials stay inside the secret boundary.

Example Workflows

  • For volume utilization alerts, compare RAID status, volume free/total, disk health, and recent backup or snapshot growth.
  • For disk health alerts, interpret temperature, bad sectors, retry count, SSD life, and RAID redundancy together.
  • For fan or power alerts, review chassis temperature, system status, DSM events, and physical device state.
  • For network throughput drops, combine interface link state, errors/drops, bond/bridge configuration, and service latency.

Synology Enterprise Overlay

The Synology Enterprise overlay adds read-only risk analysis metadata on top of the Community Synology NAS evidence routes. It correlates storage pool, volume, disk, capacity, snapshot, replication, backup, UPS, DSM update, and network signals without performing DSM changes.

Highlights

  • Contributes an anomaly rule pack and anomaly/rules route through Enterprise metadata.
  • Adds correlation/storage-backup-risk to summarize weighted NAS storage and data-protection risk.
  • Publishes MCP descriptors for CE evidence routes and the EE correlation route.
  • Declarative metric rules evaluate Synology logical metrics through metric-source mapping.

Before Registration

  • Community Synology connectivity and metric-source mapping must be healthy.
  • Verify storage pool, volume, disk, capacity, backup, snapshot, replication, UPS, DSM update, and network metric coverage.
  • Decide whether anomaly and correlation analysis feeds alerting or remains diagnostic context.
  • If backup or snapshot details are not collected by the configured DSM/API or metric source, the correlation route reports the boundary instead of inventing compliance evidence.

Operations Tips

  • Interpret storage pool degradation, volume usage, disk errors, stale backups, snapshot or replication warnings, and network saturation together with replacement and backup policy.
  • Disk, RAID/volume, and interface alerts identify the affected diskID, raidName, or ifDescr; alert details and notifications also include localized diagnostic guidance and a recommended action.
  • Use the storage/backup risk correlation output as incident context. It is not a legal backup audit, RPO/RTO certification, or DSM remediation workflow.
  • Keep device-specific collection and base health behavior in CE; only Enterprise-only rule metadata belongs in the overlay.

Operational Scenarios

  • For NAS capacity risk, inspect storage pools, volume usage, disk health, and network throughput together to separate capacity alerts from failure signals.
  • When backup or file-service failures occur, connect Synology health with related host, network, and log evidence.
  • For a model or assistant workflow, use the MCP resources for storage inventory, disk health evidence, DSM/UPS hints, capacity top lists, data-protection evidence, anomaly rules, and storage/backup risk correlation.

MCP Resources

  • storage/inventory: storage pool, volume, disk, and IO inventory evidence.
  • diagnostics/disk-health: RAID status, disk health, SMART-proxy signals, and rebuild-progress boundaries.
  • diagnostics/system-hints: DSM update, UPS, and reboot-required hints.
  • capacity/top-lists: volume capacity top-list blueprints and shared-folder capacity boundaries.
  • data-protection/evidence: snapshot, replication, backup-job boundaries, and capacity context.
  • correlation/storage-backup-risk: Enterprise weighted correlation across NAS storage and data-protection evidence.
  • anomaly/rules: Enterprise declarative metric anomaly rules.

Boundaries

  • The Synology overlay provides storage-risk analysis metadata and does not perform device changes such as RAID rebuild, volume expansion, or package control.
  • MCP descriptors remain EE overlay metadata, with only edition-neutral hooks added to CE when needed.