Plugins for Hard drive and RAID monitoring

[sattanathan]

Hi,

I have tried hard to find out the plugin to monitor the hard drive and RAID. There are many plugins floating around the exchange but i could not make the plugin that exactly suits my requirement.

My requirement is like:

Want to monitor the status of the hard drive(if any hard drive failure happens i have to be notified)/Amber light because of hard drive failure, temperature, spindle speed.

Similarly want to monitor the status of RAID, what is the RAID level configured and any failure in RAID.

Regards,
Sattanathan.S

[abrist]

It all depends on what hardware you are using (disk controller/raid chipset). There are plugins to monitor the general SMART status of a disk, but may not work with the higher end raid controllers. For those there are more customized plugins. Additionally, linux software raid is handled by a different set of plugins.

What type of hardware are you looking to monitor?

[sattanathan]

Hi Abrist,

All are HP hardware. I want to monitor the status of Hard drive and raid from ESX level.

Thanks,
Sattanathan.S

[abrist]

You may have to look at snmp monitoring as the ESX platform is not directly supported by any agents for hardware monitoring. For host and guest vm monitoring there are a number of plugins on the Exchange: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=esx

If the HP servers run some form on *nix, you will need to know the raid/disk controller chipset, as most raid monitoring plugins are hardware specific.