topic Re: monitor array status on DL380 running AS 2.1 in Operating System - Linux

monitor array status on DL380 running AS 2.1

dan dobbs — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:04:20 GMT

Greetings, all.

Is there a daemon I can run that keeps an eye on the health of my DL380's raid array? I'm used to mdstat on software raid, but am unsure what to use to monitor the hardware raid.

Is this something I can pull using an snmp query?

Thanks in advance,

-dd

Re: monitor array status on DL380 running AS 2.1

Don_89 — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:23:01 GMT

I would use the Insight Manager agents.. You can monitor hardware status through the web interface..

Re: monitor array status on DL380 running AS 2.1

dan dobbs — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:30:10 GMT

A good answer, but it doesn't help me pipe stuff into my enterprise monitoring solution. I'd like to be able to query the server remotely (via perl script or snmp) to alert me when it drops a drive.

-dd

Re: monitor array status on DL380 running AS 2.1

Bill Wood_3 — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:05:55 GMT

After you install the agents, you can use the MIBS on the Management CD and the man pages for the snmp utilities (snmpwalk and snmpget) to figure out how to get the info you need.

Below is an example of how to get the processor speed of a server running the standard equipment agent:

# snmpget localhost public enterprises.232.cpqStdEquipment.cpqSeComponent.cpqSeProcessor.cpqSeCpuTable.cpqSeCpuEntry.cpqSeCpuSpeed.0

/* the 0 is the processor number obtained by doing an snmpwalk on the index of the Cpu entries (example below) */

#snmpwalk localhost public enterprises.232.cpqStdEquipment.cpqSeComponent.cpqSeProcessor.cpqSeCpuTable.cpqSeCpuEntry.cpqSeCpuUnitIndex

This command will return a number of processors starting at 0.

In a two processor machine, the second processor would be 1, so ...

# snmpget localhost public enterprises.232.cpqStdEquipment.cpqSeComponent.cpqSeProcessor.cpqSeCpuTable.cpqSeCpuEntry.cpqSeCpuSpeed.1

would return the speed of processor number 2.