RAID Monitoring

[Dean Manners]

Darren,
	Running Debian, we monitor 40+ PE 1850/1950s with the ported OMSA
5.1 and the nagios/nrpe omsa plugin
(http://www.cs.uta.fi/~pb72587/dellomsa/nrpe/nrpe-omsa-v1.1.perl.txt)..

We have been using this method, with a couple of updates to the omsa script
for 2 years.  It works well, has covered us on many different occassions -
from power circuit failures in the data center (eg. redundant p/s alerts) to
temperature threshold alarms (eg. air con failure in the data center).
Infact it alerted us of a drive failure just 48 hours ago in one of our
1950's RAID sets.

If you don't wish to use Nagios, im sure you can modify the above script for
which ever monitoring environment you choose.


Regards
__________________________________________ 
Dean Manners

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Darren.Terry at cox.com
> Sent: Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:09
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: RAID Monitoring
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 	I was wondering what you all use to monitor your RIAD arrays on
> PowerEdge servers? I have quite a lot of servers scattered around my
> network that have no monitoring (other than physically looking). This
> just isn't cutting it. All of the servers are either running Redhat 9 or
> Fedora 7. They all use the PERC controller.
> 
> Darren Terry
> UNIX Administrator
> Cox Communications
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