check to see if a drive has failed

[Barry Allard]

Hi Adam,

The Med school uses open-source BigBrother with some perl scripts to
accomplish this.  Fletcher is the man to ask. [1]

The central campus (ITS) uses Nagios.

Our department is looking at this too, because it's a big deal.  We're
aiming to have one monitoring system than maintain/configure a bunch of
special-purpose monitoring systems (insert blood-curdling screams of horror
from the ilk of BMC Patrol, HP OpenView, etc.)

Barry Allard
Systems Administrator
Stanford Medical Informatics (SMI)

[1] http://irt.stanford.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Adam Williams
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:28 AM
To: linux-poweredge
Subject: check to see if a drive has failed

I have several PE servers w/ OMSA installed in outlying locations.  I'd 
like to have the servers let me know if one of the drives has failed in 
the RAID5 in each server.  I know I can check them manually through the 
https://server:1311 interface, but I'd like to automate the process.  I 
was thinking of running a daily cron and having it email me the output 
from "omreport storage vdisk" and look at the Status Line.  I'm assuming 
if a drive failed the status line would change the degraded?  Are there 
other/better solutions out there?

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