Monitoring Disks in PE2800 running windows 2003

[Trond Hasle Amundsen]

Adam Williams <awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us> writes:

> Yes I know this is a Linux list, but I couldn't find a Poweredge on 
> Windows mailing list, and I figure maybe a few of you out there also 
> have poweredge's running Windows.  :)
>
> On my Linux poweredge systems, I have Nagions, NRPE, and 
> check_om_storage.pl working beautifully.  However, how can I monitor the 
> disk/raid array status on my Poweredge 2800 running Windows 2003 
> Server?  I looked at Nagios Exchange and all of the scripts are written 
> for Linux, even though there is a windows version of NRPE.  There is a 
> dos omreport.exe in the windows package of OMSA.  I tried looking at 
> check_megaraid.pl because it can check PERCs through SNMP:

For Windows servers SNMP is usually preferred. This plugin works with
both SNMP and NRPE, and checks storage (among other things):

  http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2658.html;d=1

Very simple howto:

  check_openmanage -s -C <snmp community> -H <hostname>

Feel free to complain to the author (me) if this plugin doesn't work for
you :)

Cheers,
-- 
Trond H. Amundsen <t.h.amundsen at usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo