How to monitor DELL hardware status via NRPE on Linux OS

[rohithroki]

Hi Team,

I am trying to monitor the Dell Hardware status and it's running Ubuntu OS on top.

We know that we can monitor via SNMP protocol. Due to security reasons,SNMP not be allowed.

we are monitoring the hardware in windows using openmanage.exe with help of nsclient agent.

Do we have an option to monitor the same in linux environment as well via nrpe?

Please help me out .

Thanks in Advance

Regards,
Simbu

[mcapra]

There are some *unsupported* OpenManage repositories offered by Dell for Ubuntu systems:
http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ubuntu/

There is also a Debian/Ubuntu package available for the check_openmanage plugin:
http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/ch ... l#download

The check_openmanage documentation has some very good steps for getting started:
http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/ch ... anage.html

[lmiltchev]

@rohithroki, let us know if mcapra answered your question.

[rohithroki]

@Mcapra,

Thanks for reply.

I have installed the OSMA packages on the Ubuntu systems with the help of below link

http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ubuntu/

I don't know how to proceed with the next step in order to configure the service remotely in Nagios server.

Please help me out to fix.

Thanks ,
Simbu

[mcapra]

I don't know how to proceed with the next step in order to configure the service remotely in Nagios server.

This documentation describes how to configure the check_openmanage plugin on a remote Linux server. It is quite comprehensive:
http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/ch ... anage.html

Please let us know if you encounter any specific problems with that documentation or if something specific in that documentation is unclear. As this is a third party plugin, support you receive on these forums may be limited.

[lmiltchev]

Thanks, Matt!

[rohithroki]

Hi Mcapra,

Thanks for the reply.

I almost install and configure the OSMA package on the server and I am able to view the console via web browser.

https://IP:1311

but when I ran the openmanage plugin ,it throwing an error.

root@XXXX:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_openmanage
Storage Error! No controllers found

I have tried all the possibility and installed the missing packages ,but unable to sort the issue.

Thanks,
Simbu

[scottwilkerson]

https://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/c ... lers-found

[rohithroki]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the reply.

It's working for me with the command

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root@xxxxx:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_openmanage -no-storage
OK - System: 'PowerEdge R210 II', SN: 'XXXXX', 4 GB ram (2 dimms), not checking storage

but the server has hard disk of 500 GB storage, but the question is why the storage is not detected on the Linux server.

Is there any package to install and detect the storage?

Please help me to clarify the issue.

Thanks,
Simbu

[scottwilkerson]

From the article I linked to

There may be cases where this alert is a false positive:

Diskless systems
Servers without a Dell storage controller, which OMSA does not recognize.

I don't have any other suggestions other than getting a Dell storage controller