Monitoring Dell stuff?

[Alex Burger]

How about configuring your Dell servers to send SNMP traps to your 
management server, which could then feed the traps in to Nagios?

I have not done it with Dell, but on my Compaq serves I configured them 
with the Insight Agents and have them send all alerts to my management 
station running Net-SNMP.  Net-SNMP passes it on to SNMPTT (to translate 
the traps into something readable) which then passes it on to Nagios for 
alerting.

The Compaq agents (Linux, Windows etc) have over 300 different traps 
from network link up/down, hard drive failures, power supply failures 
etc.  Instead of polling for all the services, have the sever tell you 
when something is wrong.  You can do the same with UPSs, SAN devices 
etc.  You would still need Nagios to tell you if the server is up, and 
could also poll to make sure the management agents are running.

The document 'Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf' says there 
are 36 traps in 10982.mib for motherboard alerts, and 80 traps in 
arymgr.mib.  I found the document at:

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf

Check out sections 3 and 7.

An example of an alert I could get from a Compaq server is:

"Compaq Drive Array Spare Drive on controller 3, bus 0, bay 3 status is 
Failed."

Alex


Jeff Rodriguez wrote:

> You should check out Dell OpenManage and Dell IT Assistant. The server 
> runs on windows but will tell you much more about the status of your 
> systems than Nagios ever could. I believe it's free too...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> 
>> Greetings all..
>>
>>     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, 
>> what are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) - 
>> currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and 
>> doing this:
>>
>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
>> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
>> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
>> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
>>
>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
>>
>> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
>> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat specific 
>> (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
>>
>> Has anybody run into this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for personal 
>> experiences)



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