Re: SmartArray monitoring

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

Ed Wilts wrote:

> I've recently installed RHEL 4 on a Compaq DL360 with an embedded
> SmartArraycontroller.  In the last day or so (I don't know exactly
> when), one of my mirrored drives died.  Unfortunately I received no
> notification other than the idiot light on the front of the drive.
>
> What tools are available (and actually work well) to monitor the status
> of the drives and notify us when one dies?  I believe that a few people
> have complained about some of the HP tools in the past, but I obviously
> need something that works...
>  
Ed,
We're using the semi-broken HP Insight Manager Agent RPMs (hpasm, hprsm) 
and they send mail to root if bad things happen; you can also set up a 
SIM (System Insight Mgr) server on Linux or Windows to monitor all your 
HP systems in a central location.

By semi-broken, I mean that they won't integrate cleanly into a 
kickstart environment; they really need to be installed during a 
firstboot scenario.

/Brian/