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: 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
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>>>> 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
>
> ______________________________________________

Maybe someone else can fill in about the snmp agent on DRAC interface?

I would very much appreciate in hearing your results after you have
looked into it further :)

/
 Christian