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Matthieu
Asked: 2009-08-13 12:44:52 +0800 CST

Poweredge RAID Monitoring and Debian

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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

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4 Answers

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Best Answer

    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))

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  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.

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