Disk Monitoring

[Brian Bullen]

Hi,

I'd like to monitor the disk health of a HPUX 11.11 box, ideally using SNMP.
An snmpwalk of the box did not produce the storage table (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3.1).
Is there some package, or configuration that I can put in place?

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi Brian

Please visit following link:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-3505/apas10.html

Regards
Mahesh

[KVK]

HP-UX onloag tools are there . EMS system will monitor the disk health and report to the location # /var/opt/resmon/log/event.log

Disk health is monitor through the disk_em channel . You can refer the following url

http://docs.hp.com/en/diag/ems/emd_disk.htm

Cheers

[DCE]

You can use the EMS, Event monitoring Srvice to monitor the disks, and just about every other piece of hardware on the system. EMS will issue SNMP traps for everything from the disk is getting full, to it is experiencing intermittent failure to it is no longer available.

EMS can be configured two ways
Command Line - monconfig
SAM (both GUI and test versions)

Just make sure you have the right community name in your snmpconf file to talk with your SNMP server.

Dave

[Dave Hutton]

Just in case you wanted to really script up something it does look like you would have to put a lot of effort to do it snmp wise.

snmpwalk servername hp.nm.system.general.fileSystem

Will show you information about the filesystems. But you would have to parse out a lot of information to get what you want, and you would have to match up the filesystemID1 (fileSystemDir.1074003969.7) with this number:
fileSystemBavail.1074003969.7

Anyway, it looks like its doable but you would have to make two snmp queries to find out what filesystem is what ID and then match that ID to the fileSystemBavail.

I would probably go for a canned app. We use ITO, but we do use a custom script that checks filesystem full and then pages us when they get full.