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: 18 November 2008 07:38
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: Disk status with IPMI over lan or SNMP from DRAC
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

I use zabbix too and have been looking at this very issue for a ESXi server where the zabbix agent cant be installed (I've tried a few times).

There is a good script on the zabbix site for the IPMI data, but apart from ESXi which can read the Dell RAID status directly it seems to be necessary to use openmanage :(

I'm afraid I haven't yet found any docs on the event lists in that event log, but I believe a drive failure would show up there. Once I have one of our R200's offline I'm going to investigate that very issue.

Jason