Poweredge RAID Monitoring and Debian

Question

What tools do you use to monitor hardware RAID Status on Dell Poweredge 2950 (II and III, perc)? I run Debian. I've used a "debianized" version of dell openmanage in the past. I'm looking for a lightweight solution and (if possible) something "debian packaged".

Any ideas are welcome!

Thanks

Answer 1

As womble said, grab the OMSA packages from that blog post and use NRPE to call check_openmanage.

This'll give you good coverage over all the Dell hardware in your box (including the RAID array(s))

Answer 2

We run OMSA on all our Dell servers, and then have NRPE plugins to query that information to generate results for Nagios to process, graph, alert on, etc.

Answer 3

not debian packaged..

i use ipmi over lan to read drac logs. i run:

ipmitool -L USER -H 10.1.2.3 -U ipmi_username -P password sel elist last 10 

this gives me last 10 log messages. if there is something there - probably strange stuff has occurred [ memory errors, redundant psu died etc ]

i run locally MegaCLI to query for raid status. it requires root privileges so i have cron job that executes:

./MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL|grep -v "Current Time" >> current.txt ./MegaCli -PDList -aALL >> current.txt ./MegaCli AdpBbuCmd -aAll|grep "Aalarm"|grep -v "^Remaining" >> current.txt ./MegaCli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL >> current.txt 

while nagios nrpe plugin just compares current.txt with expected.txt and alerts if they dont match.

you can google for megacli or download it from lsi webpage.

Answer 4

OMSA works with debian, with a bit of tweaking, and it's not that heavy

on the other hand you can set up linux native tools, or the additional packages like nagios, munin etc.