topic Re: Chassis Hardware Status in Operating System - HP-UX

Chassis Hardware Status

Olivier Dumas — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:49:16 GMT

Hello,

I have several servers of various types (RP2470, RP5430 and RP8400) for which I would like to get information about hardware status (Led Status, component temperatures, faulty disks, etc.)

I know that some of this information can be seen on the GSP/MP console, but I would like to automatically collect such informations on all the servers to make a daily checklist. Going to the console is thus not the right solution, I believe.

Is there a way for me to get those informations using one or several HP/UX command(s) ?

Thanks a lot.
Olivier.

Re: Chassis Hardware Status

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:01:29 GMT

EMS kind of does that, and by default if installed on 11.11 will provide you warning messages only when something is wrong.

Example, while fiddling around, I accidently unplugged a fan on my sandbox server. Next morning, there was an EMS message in the root mailbox. Redirect that, and you've got notification.

There is a new product called ISEE, which does that even better but is not released. They just started a forum about it and you can learn more about it there.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/FamilyHome/1,,302,00.html

SEP

Re: Chassis Hardware Status

Ravi_8 — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:10:48 GMT

Hi Olivier

I use LAN console for these purposes . I never get into server room unless there is a hardware problem

Re: Chassis Hardware Status

Olivier Dumas — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:00:45 GMT

Thanks for the help, but it doesn't completely answer my point.

I wish to make snapshots of my server hardware status on a daily basis, for tracking purpose. For instance, on Solaris Servers, I automatically execute commands such as 'prtdiag', 'lom', 'healthck', etc. to get information about the servers, and format the result in a easily readable text file.
Those commands give me information such as 'CPU1 temperature is 57??C', 'Fan number 1 is rotating at 62% of it's max speed' or 'Alert Led is OFF'

The point is really to have shell commands to get the hardware status, so that the snapshot of a server can be easily and automatically created. I don't know if this can be done on HP hardware, though.

Olivier.

Re: Chassis Hardware Status

Carlo Montanari — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:58:28 GMT

echo "selall; info; infolog" | /usr/sbin/cstm

Re: Chassis Hardware Status

Olivier Dumas — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 06:01:50 GMT

Excellent, This is exactly the kind of information I wanted. Thanks a lot.