DumbMonit
IntegrationsStorage and backups
Monitor Synology DSM with DumbMonit
Volumes, pools, disk health, temperature, Hyper Backup and Active Backup jobs, Synology Drive and Photos.
DocumentationOfficial website: Synology
Product descriptions are in English, as in the product. The page labels follow your language.
What DumbMonit watches
Synology NAS through the DSM web API: volumes, storage pools, disk health, temperature, Hyper Backup tasks, Active Backup for Business tasks, and Synology Drive and Photos. The first reason to monitor a NAS is its disks: a disk that heats up or whose SMART status degrades announces a failure long before a volume falls over.
Typical use. DiskStation, RackStation
Examples
- DiskStation
- RackStation
How it connects
What you need
- DSM account
Network ports to open
5001/TCPDSM API (HTTPS, default)5000/TCPOnly with the HTTP protocol option
Setup steps: Create a monitoring account in DSM
In DSM, open Control Panel → User & Group → User → Create and name the account as follows, with a long password used nowhere else.
dumbmonitJoin groups: tick administrators.
Assign shared folder permissions: tick No access on every shared folder.
Assign application permissions: Deny every application except DSM, and Active Backup for Business if you want its tasks read.
Keep two-step verification off for this account (Control Panel → Security → Account).
In DumbMonit, enter the NAS address (HTTPS, port 5001 by default) and this account's user name and password.
Heads-up. The administrators group is required by DSM's storage API, not by DumbMonit: that is why the account gets no shared folder and no other application.