Hardware RAID monitoring?

Yu Watanabe yu.watanabe at jp.fujitsu.com
Mon Dec 19 01:51:39 CET 2011


Hello Axel.

Thank you for the reply.

>most controllers have a kind of cli which you cann access. With a more or less 
>simple script you can get your raid and disk status. With nrpe it's easy to 
>get a state message and an exitcode.
>
>You can try it with snmp, though

  I saw check_megaraid_sas in the Nagios Exchange which is for the Mega RAID controller (LSI).
  It will be nice to hear that other vedors has such cli api's which is visible from the OS.
  SNMP would be nicer too.

Thanks
Yu

Axel さんは書きました:
>Hi, 
>
>Am Freitag 16 Dezember 2011, 10:00:12 schrieb Yu Watanabe:
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> I would ask for advice if anyone has ever implemented Hardware RAID
>> monitoring on LINUX and Windows. I am figuring out how to do this but bit
>> struggling with ideas.
>> 
>> I assume that sofware RAID status will depend on the api of the vendor
>> software but Hardware RAID will be bit tricky.
>> 
>> It would be helpful if one can share their experience of how the RAID
>> status can be fetched.
>
>most controllers have a kind of cli which you cann access. With a more or less 
>simple script you can get your raid and disk status. With nrpe it's easy to 
>get a state message and an exitcode.
>
>You can try it with snmp, though
>
>Regards, Axel 
>
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