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. > omsa webserver is not required, but working omreport cli is. .. works > great on my servers. Good to know, much appreciated. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!