Disk status with IPMI over lan or SNMP from DRAC

[Jason Ede]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Christian Appelgren
> Sent: 17 November 2008 08:37
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Disk status with IPMI over lan or SNMP from DRAC
> 
> Hello list.
> 
> Is it any way that I can get disk status or raid array status from a
> Poweredge 1950 (or similar) using IPMI over LAN or SNMP to DRAC snmp
> agent? I would very much appreciate to get this status without having
> to
> install OpenManage software in server OS.
> 
> I now get status of fan speeds and temperatures with IPMI over lan.
> From
> SNMP agent I get nothing. I have understood that I can have the DRAC to
> send me a trap if something goes wrong, but I would prefer to poll this
> status over time instead of waiting for a trap.

I was looking to do this myself. From everything I could read though IPMI using BMC/DRAC can't read the RAID status.

Have you thought about reading the event log -USER sel elist options for ipmi read if I remember correctly.

Jason