Nagios and PERC 5/i responses - degraded?

[Jim Nelson]

Scott R. Ehrlich wrote:
> I am successfully remotely monitoring a PE2950 with PERC 5/i and two of 
> the nagios plug-ins claim the controller is Non-critical/Degraded.
> 
> I did have a drive failure, replaced it, and rebuilt the server from the 
> ground up (new PERC raid partitions, OS reinstalled, etc).  I also 
> upgraded all firmware.
> 
> OMreport claims the controller and drives are all fine.
> 
> Could this be an uncleared warning from when there really was a problem 
> that I overlooked when rebuilding?  If so, can I use OM to clear the 
> warning?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 

If you're running CentOS 5.1 or RHEL 5.1 and OMSA 5.3, your driver version is 
too low, and it is likely alarming for that.

You can see the errors logging into the OMSA web console and checking the 
controller status from there.