topic Re: monitor hardware at OS level in Operating System - Linux

monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:58:56 GMT

hi all,
we have SuSe Linux servers installed on HP hardware and connected to eva4400 through fibre.
The hardware consists of Itanium and Intel Xeon Systems.
I am not too sure what HP software is installed in it apart from HPDP's Disk agent and Oracle agent.
I would like to know if there is any way I can monitor the underlying hardware at OS level.
whether the RAID disks are functioning fine etc.
When I look at the rack, i see that once amber light is flickering on one of the Itanium servers. I have no clue as to what its about.
How can I get to know about this.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

Alzhy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:02:30 GMT

HP Insight Manager (HPSIM).

Get HP SIM agents installed.

It's free, it should be able to monitor all your HP Ecosystems -- from your EVA 4400 to your Intehrity and Proliant systems.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:05:28 GMT

Hi thanks a lot ... i will check these
i am not the person who installed SUSE on the systems .. is there any way i can check whether these are already installed on the system?

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

Alzhy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:26:12 GMT

EZ.. check your /opt for obviously named sub dirs.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:47:31 GMT

Installing a Systems Insight Manager CMS on Linux Itanium Processor Family (IPF) is not supported
http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02537438/c02537438.pdf

:(
cant use it on my db servers

is there any other conventional way of monitoring hardware from Linux OS level

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

Alzhy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:55:50 GMT

So your issue is only with Linux on Itanium huh? And SUSE? I now RedHat Linux is abandoning Itanium as a platform and would have thought HP values Suse still and provides support packs for even the newer Integrity Platforms. I have not looked lately though.

But what HW montiroing are you looking for? If I am not mistaken, the Itanium machine's GSP via its iLO should have some monitoring built in -- that you can even route via SNMP or smtp.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:07:44 GMT

honestly speaking hardware is my weak link. i v been working on OS linux and windows for sometime but when it comes to hardware, i go blank.
we have 6 suse linux servers installed on hp hardware. 2 on itanium systems and 4 on Intel Xenon systems.
the data center guy told me that an amber light is blinking on one of the two itanium servers. he asked to look into it. i have no clue.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

Alzhy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:13:55 GMT

Did you install the Suse on these Integrity machines your self? Are these rack mounts or Blades?

If you did and follwed the HP recipe for installing Suse - then you likely should have installed some "Essentials" fostware on it that should include monitoring tools and even HP SMH (or system management home page) -- which should give you diagnostics. Otherwise - try logging into the server's GSP/iLO card - if you were given access to it.

HP System Management Home page you can download and install from http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents/index.html . Hopefully it will also install or bundle disganostics.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:23:20 GMT

no ... it was installed systems which were given to me.
they are blades.
and i dont have access to ilo... they didnt give me.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

Alzhy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:27:15 GMT

check if SMH is up:

http://yourintegrity.dom.com:2381

or

http://ip.pi.ip.pi:2381

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:40:39 GMT

i m afraid ther is nothing running on the port 2381. browser shows page not found

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

Alzhy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:42:21 GMT

Then it is NOT installed. I suggest you install it. And the following as well:

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T2766AA

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:46:16 GMT

i will try that ...

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:47:05 GMT

thanks a million for ur continued support ... :)
will try that on my test vm before running it on production.

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

Alzhy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:52:26 GMT

yay.. you have SUSE as a guest VM in HPIVM?

Then you need to monitor the HPIVM host. These tools I don;t think should be installed on the guests

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:54:19 GMT

nope .. all my servers are standalone. no VMs
i will be installing first on my desktop vmware workstation image ... so that i dont screw anything on the production

Re: monitor hardware at OS level

iinfi1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:06:28 GMT

i found this while googling.
wondering whether i can get something for my itanium systems

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html

but the utility also seems to be only for x86_64 systems