check_bioctl - checks status of a RAID array using bioctl The only real caveat with it is that bioctl needs rw permission to /dev/bio. One way to allow for that is by adding an entry to /etc/sudoers and then making the check run sudo check_bioctl. This is an example of what I have set up for NRPE. For checks on the machine running Nagios, use the _nagios user in /etc/sudoers instead of _nrpe, and of course, no /etc/nrpe.cfg. /etc/sudoers: _nrpe ALL = NOPASSWD:${PREFIX}/nagios/check_bioctl -d ami0 /etc/nrpe.cfg: command[check_bioctl]=/usr/bin/sudo ${PREFIX}/nagios/check_bioctl -d ami0 $RedRiver$