check_openmanage - Feature request

[Trond Hasle Amundsen]

Russell Kackley <rkackley at naoj.org> writes:

> I recently downloaded and started using the Nagios plugin 
> check_openmanage to provide information on our Dell PowerEdge servers to 
> Nagios. check_openmanage works very well for us, but there is one thing 
> that I would like to see added. Another possibility is that other 
> check_openmanage users could point me to a way to accomplish what I want 
> to do using the existing code.
>
> We have two PowerEdge 2950 servers, named s1 and s2. Each server has a 
> PERC 6/E card installed in them. We also have a PowerVault MD1000 
> storage unit. Both servers are connected to the MD1000. s1 is our 
> primary server so we boot it first and Dell OMSA reports that the 
> physical disks are "Online", which is what we want. s2 is our backup 
> server and we boot that second. For this server, Dell OMSA reports that 
> the physical disk status is "Non-Critical" and the state is "Foreign". 
> This is ok for us, but the problem is that check_openmanage sees the 
> "Non-Critical" status and reports a Warning for the physical disks. I 
> would like check_openmanage to ignore the "Non-Critical" status when the 
> state is "Foreign", preferably via a blacklist option, e.g., 
> pdisk_foreign. I think that this is similar to the blacklist option 
> pdisk_cert, in which check_openmanage ignores the "Non-Critical" status 
> when a disk is not certified by Dell. Note that I did investigate the 
> blacklist item pdisk and the "--check storage=0" option, but my 
> understanding of those options is that they suppress all checks of the 
> disks, which is not what I want.
>
> Do the users of check_openmanage 1) have any suggestions for how I can 
> tell check_openmanage to ignore the "Non-Critical"/"Foreign" state of 
> the disks, or 2) think that this would be a useful feature to add to 
> check_openmanage?

Hi Russel,

This would be a nice feature to add. Please try the latest development
version (3.7.1-beta2), it includes the new blacklisting keyword
'pdisk_foreign' as you suggest:

  http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html#download

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

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