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? -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!