check_dell_warranty version 1.1 released

[Trond Hasle Amundsen]

Erinn Looney-Triggs <erinn.looneytriggs at gmail.com> writes:

> I don't plan on spamming y'all with release announcements but given
> that this fixes a rather stupid bug, wherein the plugin does not
> return the right status I thought I would let you folks know that I
> have released version 1.1 of this plugin, location is the same:

I have a couple of ideas that might improve your plugin.

  1. You can get the serial number via OMSA, e.g.:

       $ omreport chassis info | grep 'Chassis Service Tag'
       Chassis Service Tag                      : 5GG4M1J

     This doesn't require root privileges and should be preferred if
     OMSA is installed on the server. You can always failback to
     dmidecode.

  2. Build in SNMP support. Let the Nagios server query the Dell server
     via SNMP to get the serial number (requires OMSA) and contact the
     Dell HTTP service. I'm guessing a lot of people is sceptical to
     letting all their servers making HTTP connections to Dell support
     at the whim of the Nagios server. SNMP support would make your
     plugin compatible with other OS-es (i.e. Windows) and would
     significantly widen your user base.

I realize that the second idea would require a major overhaul, but it
could be fun.

BTW, thanks for this plugin. I was thinking of writing one myself, but
never got around to it, as usual. Kudos :)

Happy monitoring,
-- 
Trond H. Amundsen <t.h.amundsen at usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo