Monitoring Drive State using SNMP on iLO5 DL365 Gen10+

[swbot]

Hello,

I'd like to monitor physical and logical drive states using SNMP through iLO 5. This works on our older Gen9 Servers, but doesn't on the newer Gen10+ Servers. Both Gen9 and Gen10+ Servers are running ESXi HPE Image (Gen9 ESXi 6.5, Gen10+ 7.0.3).
When invoking SNMP walk on 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.5 there is no result on the Gen10+ Servers. Other parameters, like overall state and temperatures can be retrieved without any issue.
I can get logical and physical drive information through the REST API, but this method isn't really scalable with our monitoring software and rather cumbersome.
Am I missing something simple?

Cheers

[Karolis_S]

I have same issue with HPE 325, 345 and 365 servers.
I have managed to find data about HPE NS204i-p Gen10+ Boot Controller.
It's located under . .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.1.2.23 cpqSePCIeDiskTable
https://mibs.observium.org/mib/CPQSTDEQ-MIB/#cpqSePCIeDisk

But where to find info/condition about HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ or other tri-mode controllers, have no idea.
Using snmpwalk you can get all possible data snmp provides about server:

snmpwalk -v 2c -c snmp_read_string server_ip 1.3

I have analized all snmp output, but no info about controller or disks connected to it. 

[BPSingh]

Greetings!

Please refer to SNMP Traps section on below web-link for more information. 

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00105236en_us&docLocale=en_US&page=GUID-8FE3C00D-92C9-4801-A5EE-3E283932CDEB.html

For more information about these SNMP traps, see the following MIB files in the Insight Management MIB update kit for HPE SIM:

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04272529 

This kit provides all the necessary MIB files to update HPE SIM, or any other MIB tool, to have the latest support for HPE ProLiant and Integrity servers.

To monitor the storage sub-system, please may check on the below MIBs. 

cpqida.mib
cpqstsys.mib

[Moderator edit: Updated the broken link.]

[swbot]

Hello, 

thank you for your help.
Sadly, I barely get results when testing the OIDs from the mentioned MIBs. I only get results on the OIDs for revisions:

Found OIDs:
1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.1.1.0: CPQIDA-MIB|cpq da mib rev|cpq da mib rev major||,Undefined,,(not defined),0
1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.1.2.0: CPQIDA-MIB|cpq da mib rev|cpq da mib rev minor||,Undefined,,(not defined),0
1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.1.3.0: CPQIDA-MIB|cpq da mib rev|cpq da mib condition||,Undefined,,(not defined),0
1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8.1.1.0: CPQSTSYS-MIB|cpq ss mib rev|cpq ss mib rev major||,Undefined,,(not defined),0
1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8.1.2.0: CPQSTSYS-MIB|cpq ss mib rev|cpq ss mib rev minor||,Undefined,,(not defined),0
1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8.1.3.0: CPQSTSYS-MIB|cpq ss mib rev|cpq ss mib condition||,Undefined,,(not defined),0

Testing OIDs...
30.01.2023 09:32:07 (10158 ms) : SNMP Datatype: ASN_INTEGER
Test 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.1.1.0: value=1 #
30.01.2023 09:32:07 (10179 ms) : SNMP Datatype: ASN_INTEGER
Test 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.1.2.0: value=90 #
30.01.2023 09:32:07 (10201 ms) : SNMP Datatype: ASN_INTEGER
Test 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.1.3.0: value=2 #
30.01.2023 09:32:07 (10222 ms) : SNMP Datatype: ASN_INTEGER
Test 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8.1.1.0: value=1 #
30.01.2023 09:32:07 (10242 ms) : SNMP Datatype: ASN_INTEGER
Test 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8.1.2.0: value=32 #
30.01.2023 09:32:07 (10263 ms) : SNMP Datatype: ASN_INTEGER
Test 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8.1.3.0: value=2 #

 (I used paessler SNMP Tester, but it's the same using bash or Powershell)
So still no Information about the storage sub-system.

Here are details about the systems: 

Product Name ProLiant DL365 Gen10 Plus
System ROM A42 v2.60 (08/11/2022)
iLO Firmware Version 2.72 Sep 04 2022
Operating System VMware ESXi 7.0.3 Build-20842708 Update 3 Patch 65
Storage Controller HPE MR416i-a Gen10+

Any ideas?

Cheers

[KarolisS]

Hello BPSingh,

MIB's cpqida.mib and cpqstsys.mib works ok for GEN10 servres, but not for GEN10 plus. 
Only data it provides is:

snmpwalk -v 2c -c public server_ilo_ip.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.232.8.1.1.0 = INTEGER: 1
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.232.8.1.2.0 = INTEGER: 32
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.232.8.1.3.0 = INTEGER: 2

 snmpwalk -v 2c -c public server_ilo_ip .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.232.3.1.1.0 = INTEGER: 1
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.232.3.1.2.0 = INTEGER: 90
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.232.3.1.3.0 = INTEGER: 2

 
.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3 is root OID from CPQIDA
.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.8 is root OID from CPQSTSYS
I have installed latest amsd agent also snmpd service is up and running on the servers, but still cannot get any data about storage subsystem.

quering very top (root) smnp OID 1.3 returns over 13k lines of data about server, but there is no health or inventory data about tri-mode raid controllers.
Server has latest BIOS and firmware. Other required data about CPU, RAM, NIC, PSU, etc can be found, but not storage subsystem.

[BPSingh · Accepted solution]

Greetings!

Got to know about below after further checking on this query.

These controllers do not provide SNMP MIB support at this time. 
There is nothing documented in the HPE MR Gen10 Plus Controller User Guide and the controller is not listed in our latest Insight Management MIB update kit. 
Having said that MIB support is being considered for a future enhancement, however there is no ETA at the moment. 

[swbot]

Hello,

thank your for letting us know.
Even though I'm not really satisfied, I understand that this is the current situation.
I want to add, that apparently not even with the HPEiLO cmdlets the physical drives can be queried (Not 100% confident because I probably don't have the latest version installed).

PS C:\Users\nwesa2> $connection | Get-HPEiLOSmartArrayStorageController


Controllers               :
SmartArrayDiscoveryStatus : Complete
IP                        : 172.30.200.23
Hostname                  : mkn-xavmhost01-ilo
Status                    : OK
StatusInfo                :

this leaves using the REST API as the only way of monitoring.
https://ilorestfulapiexplorer.ext.hpe.com/ helped me getting started. Querying  "/redfish/v1/Systems/1/Storage/" gave me further Information and IDs for specific data.

Cheers

[lukasd]

Any news here?

API is really painfull. The URLs differ from System to System and at different firmware versions!
I must test and edit my monitoring script for every system! Really annoying!

[Sunitha_Mod]

Hello @lukasd,

Thank you for posting! Since you have posted in an old topic and there is no response yet, we would recommend you create a new topic using the create "New Discussion" button, so the experts can check and guide you further. 

[BorisBe07]

Hello,

Since February do you have any news about SNMP MiB support on the MR-416i-a controller?

We can't monitor the state of the disks on our monitoring, it's very annoying.