monitoring SAS drives on a PE2950?

[Iain Miller]

There's a good RAID plugin available for the hobbit monitor

http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=927

It says it only works with PERC5, but I have it running on a PERC6
without issues.

Cheers,

Iain.

2008/10/9 Terry Gliedt <tpg at umich.edu>:
> Ryan Langseth wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Adam Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to monitor the drives on a PE2950 for failure?  I know
>>> there is OMSA, but I have to check the web interface daily.  is there a
>>> way to have a script check the drives daily and email me if one fails?
>>>
>>
>> I have been trying to figure this out on our linux systems too, I really
>> don't want to install OMSA to do it.  there are nagios plugins to monitor
>> megaraid controllers. On our FreeBSD systems, drive failures are logged by
>> the kernel, on CentOS, there are no log messages when a disk fails.
>
> I monitor 70+ machines (Dell, IBM and Sun) every day with a simple
> script that dumps the hardware event logs of each machine. I keep each
> log cleared and filter out non-events (like 'log cleared). The remaining
> lines (if any) are sent me each morning as mail and look like this:
>
> ############ SEL Information for 'p35' ['192.168.12.24'] ############
> Complete SEL log saved in '/data/sel/p35.log'
> SEL can be cleared with:   ipmitool -I lan -U MYROOT -a -H 192.168.12.24
> sel clear
>    2 | 09/25/2008 | 14:47:21 | Power Supply #0x64 | Predictive failure
> | Asserted
>    3 | 09/25/2008 | 14:47:31 | Power Supply #0x64 | Predictive failure
> | Deasserted
>    4 | 09/25/2008 | 15:18:06 | Power Supply #0x64 | Predictive failure
> | Asserted
>
> The key is to use IPMI. See
>
>   http://www.hps.com/~tpg/notebook/ipmi.php
>
> for the core of what I needed to know. Hopefully that is enough for you too.
>
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Iain Miller
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