RAID monitoring

[Erik Cummings]

John,
    Do you have a DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) installed?  I believe the DRAC's have some level of ability to send alerts (anyone know this for sure?  I don't use my DRAC's like this - but there is enable paging for users???).

	However, as an earlier post implies, sending SNMP traps, or doing something with NagIOS (there is a decent check_dell plugin), are your best bets (along with the build your own periodic parsing script).

	Hey - actually - if you just need to get this running - you SHOULD check out the NagIOS plugin for Dell.  You could run it as a standalone script through CRON and it does an omreport - parses the output and returns NagIOS levels - OK, UNKNOWN, CRITICAL, WARNING.  Might be better than writing your own script.  Let me know if you want to pursue this option and I'll dig this stuff out of my configs.

Erik


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of John Heim
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:37 PM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: RAID monitoring
> 
> I'm trying to set up a Dell 1950 as a  web server. We're a debian linux
> shop
> so I installed debian etch (current stable version). Then i installed the
> debian port of the dellomsa package.
> 
> I'm not sure what to do next.  The problem is that I'm blind and i can't
> read the printed documentation. I've been going through the CDs that came
> with the server but I can't find a comprehensive step-by-step guide. By
> using -? with omreport, I've gotten far. I see that RAID1 appears to be
> working. There is one virtual disk and 2 physical disks and it says for
> each
> that a failure is not immenent.
> 
> What I mainly would like to know is how i can configure RAID monitoring. I
> need to make sure I am notified if a drive begins to fail. Can I configure
> dellomsa to send email if a drive failure is detected? Can i test that
> somehow? Should I simply write a script to parse the output from 'omreport
> sstorage controller controller=0'?
> 
> Or maybe this is documented somewhere either on-line or on one of the CDs
> that comes with the server?
> 
> Help please.
> 
> PS: The server came with a cable, about 3 feet long. One end plugs into
> the
> back of the server. The other end has a knob or button on the end. Can
> anybody tell me what that is? An external temp probe maybe?
> 
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