[CentOS] Dell PERC H800 commandline RAID monitoring tools
Dr. Ed Morbius
dredmorbius at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 22:30:03 UTC 2011
on 23:15 Mon 07 Mar, Eero Volotinen (eero.volotinen at iki.fi) wrote:
> 2011/3/7 Dr. Ed Morbius <dredmorbius at gmail.com>:
> > on 22:57 Mon 07 Mar, Eero Volotinen (eero.volotinen at iki.fi) wrote:
> >> 2011/3/7 Dr. Ed Morbius <dredmorbius at gmail.com>:
> >> > We're looking for tools to be used in monitoring the PERC H800 arrays on
> >> > a set of database servers running CentOS 5.5.
> >> >
> >> > We've installed most of the OMSA (Dell monitoring) suite.
> >> >
> >> > Our current alerting is happening through SNMP, though it's a bit hit or
> >> > miss (we apparently missed a couple of earlier predictive failure alerts
> >> > on one drive).
> >> >
> >> > OMSA conflicts with mega-cli, though we may find that the latter is the
> >> > more useful package. Both are pretty byzantine, the Dell stuff simply
> >> > doesn't have docs (in particular: docs on how to interpret the omconfig
> >> > log output).
> >> >
> >> > Ideally we'd like something which could be run as a Nagios plugin or
> >> > cron job providing information on RAID status and/or possible disk
> >> > errors. Probably both, actually.
> >>
> >> if your system supports omreport (comes with omsa) then this is good solution:
> >> http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html
> >
> > So ... this slots on top of OMSA to provide reporting?
>
> this plugin parsers omreport output and uses it for nagios output.
Is it running/invoking omreport or relying on periodic runs? I'll dig
through the docs but if you know this off-hand it'd be helpful.
> omsa webserver is not required, but working omreport cli is. .. works
> great on my servers.
Good to know, much appreciated.
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