on 23:15 Mon 07 Mar, Eero Volotinen (eero.volotinen@iki.fi) wrote:
2011/3/7 Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorbius@gmail.com:
on 22:57 Mon 07 Mar, Eero Volotinen (eero.volotinen@iki.fi) wrote:
2011/3/7 Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorbius@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.