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 -- Eero