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. omsa webserver is not required, but working omreport cli is. .. works great on my servers. -- Eero