I need to check the Raid status on a few HP servers

[benningtonr]

I am trying to find a wizard, or check that I can use to get the status of my raid controllers and arrays.
I was trying to use check_cciss, but I do not see an argument for putting in an address.

What does everyone else use,
Thank you in advance for any and all input.

[lmiltchev]

There are 97 listings under the "RAID Controllers" category on the Nagios Exchange:

http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... hword=raid

There must be something that you can use in your environment. Have you checked them all?

[benningtonr]

I did not see all these, i am looking for an HP linux raid plugin

[slansing]

What specific array? Sounds like it might also be software side arrays? Can you give us some more details, all you really need to do is enter a proper name for the hardware/software you are looking for, such as "HP Linux SMART". You may also be able to monitor it via SNMP, but once again, you've not given us much to go on.

[benningtonr]

Okay, i am trying to figure out how to get the Check_CCISS plus in to work.
I do not see any directions, can someone that has used it please advice.
I am new to linux and nagios,
Thank you

[benningtonr]

I have an hp DL380-g5 with a HP Smart array e200 with the latest firmware 1.86 just installed, i want to monitor the array health from my nagios server. I have looked and most run on the hp server, and I am not sure how to get the results back to nagios.

Thank you for your help

[lmiltchev]

Okay, i am trying to figure out how to get the Check_CCISS plus in to work.
I do not see any directions, can someone that has used it please advice.

After you have downloaded the plugin from the Nagios Exchange, you can install it very easily from the Nagios XI Web interface:

Admin->Manage Plugins->Browse->...->Upload Plugin

After the plugin has been installed, you can run it from the CLI with the "-h" flag to see the usage:

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cd /usr/local/nagios/libexec
./check_cciss-1.12 -h

Test the plugin from the CLI. If it's working fine, set up a command and service definitions in Nagios XI. Please, review this document to find out how to do this:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf

[benningtonr]

I had done all that, but i need to monitor the array on a remote machine so I am unsure hoe to procede. There is no option for an IP address so that the plug in can test on a remote machine like Cisco BGP for example.

Thank you again for any assistance.

[benningtonr]

Okay, update time

On my test box, i have copied over the cciss plug in, i have updates the hpacucli to the latest version, updated the key for it from HP.
I can now run run the plug in on the test box successfully.

[root@RonbTestBox libexec]# ./check_cciss -v
RAID OK: Smart Array E200 in Slot 3 array A logicaldrive 1 (33.9 GB, RAID 1, OK) array B logicaldrive 2 (205.0 GB, RAID 0, OK) [Controller Status: OK Cache Status: OK]
[root@RonbTestBox libexec]#


How do I get this info to the nagios server and monitor the output

Thank you again

[abrist]

You will need to use an agent: nrpe, ncpa, or check_by_ssh.