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monitoring raid container on DL380 w/ RH-AS3

dan dobbs — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:34:29 GMT

Greetings, all.

I was strolling through the data center and noticed a big red light on a drive on my 380. I dutifully called HP, and got a ticket started, and they are sending a new one. Yay! However, I noticed that there wasn't anything in /var/log/messages that told me 'hey, bozo, drive fail'.

If I was running SNMP, is there an oid I can check against? Failing that, what's the best way to monitor this? I'd like to be able to keep an eye on this with my monitoring server, so I can get paged! :)

Environment: DL380 G3, (6) 146GB drives, Red Hat Advanced Server 3.

Cheers!

-dd

Re: monitoring raid container on DL380 w/ RH-AS3

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:02:37 GMT

See this page:

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/101_6213.html

One of the "Software - System Management" should give you the solution.

Re: monitoring raid container on DL380 w/ RH-AS3

Alpha977 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:11:59 GMT

Hello!

HP Openview make this, but is expansive for a little number of nodes.

There is another software seems like this, and you can use it to monitor some kind of nodes (rotuer, switch, servers) it name is "Nagios".
Is free and opensource linux software but has limited functions but enought for some nodes.
Openview is a big and powerful software, we use in our enterprise.

Check it

bye

Re: monitoring raid container on DL380 w/ RH-AS3

dan dobbs — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:32:14 GMT

I have monitoring software. I need a way to query the server. I fired up 'snmpwalk' after I installed the 'Insight Manager Agent' and just got the basics:

[root@nagios ~]# snmpwalk -v1 -c public cedar | more
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: "Linux cedar.mutualmaterials.com 2.4.21-37.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:28:55 EDT 2005 i686"
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-MIB::netSnmpAgentOIDs.10
SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (53791) 0:08:57.91
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: "Help Desk"
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: "cedar.mutualmaterials.com"
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: "Bellevue"

And so on.

However, the /var/log/messages finally showed something, but I don't want to grep a darn file to get the info---I should be able to do an snmpget and have it tell me "Physical drive failed: SCSI Bus 2 Target 2 of Embedded Array Controller".

Is there a DL380 MIB I need to load to see the info on my monitoring system?

-dd

Re: monitoring raid container on DL380 w/ RH-AS3

Jess Long — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:46:55 GMT

HP provides a solution called ProLiant Support Pack for Linux. This pack contains software that when installed and loaded monitors the system and reports such errors/failures as you described.
See the link:
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/101_4706.html#0