Disk status with IPMI over lan or SNMP from DRAC

[Christian Appelgren]

Jason Ede wrote:
>> -----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
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Do you have any waypoints to docs which cover the output in event list
in case of disk/raid failure? Sadly I think this will be a little bit
tricky to poll as I hoped to use the IPMI agent of zabbix
(www.zabbix.com) which now reads sensors with temp/fan status of my servers.

Also I am very curious on what the SNMP agent on the DRAC interface
could do. I can't find anything about it in the docs, all I can find is
about polling snmp agent in OS after installing openmanage software.

Thanks.

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