RAID Monitoring on HP DL380

[Craig Kelley_1]

We're trying out a couple HP DL380's for our application. We currently use Dell PowerEdge 2650s with LSI RAID arrays. Those arrays provide their status in the /proc filesystem so that we can integrate alerts into SNMP or Nagios. I just fired up our test HP server and installed RedHat -- the proc entries for cciss RAID don't seem to have any status information in them, and there were no syslog messages when I removed a drive (although it kept running, and rebuilt the drive fine when I re-inserted it).

I tried to load the "SmartStart" CD; we don't typically have X11 libraries or gtk+ installed, but I did so because the "autorun_linux" program required it. After doing that, though, it still wouldn't run:

# /mnt/cdrom/autorun_linux
Unable to find SmartStart CD mounted on this server.

So now I'm left with a CD that has strange filenames (nothing seems obvious, at least to me), and no apparent method of querying the RAID status for integration into our enterprise system. Could someone offer some pointers please? Thanks! We're running Redhat 7.3 + legacy patches (fedoralegacy.org).

[Kodjo Agbenu]

Hello,

On HP Proliant platforms, you need to install HP monitoring agents. They are included in HP Proliant Support Pack :

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/19618.html

I would suggest you read the documentation here :

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/management/imaug.pdf

Good luck.

Kodjo

[Craig Kelley_1]

Is there any way to do this without installing SNMP or a custom web server? Something with a command-line perhaps?