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. -- Eero