[CentOS] Dell PERC H800 commandline RAID monitoring tools

[Eero Volotinen]

2011/3/8 Dr. Ed Morbius <dredmorbius at gmail.com>:
> 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.

It runs omreport each time nagios polls it via nrpe or snmp.

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Eero