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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone one out there is successfully monitoring a HP Proliant server running Ubuntu 11 or up. And if so by what means? I have tried for two days straight to get the hp-health package successfully installed on the server, so that plugins like check_hp and check_hpasm could query it for health information, but hp-health always throws an error, saying the server is not supported. This happened on multiple servers. The last package for hp-health seems to have been for Ubuntu 10.x, so I am going to assume that maybe it is just not compatible with 12.x. I am able to snmpwalk the server I want to monitor from my Nagios box, so snmp is definitely working. But It seems like I am not able to use check_snmp with any OIDs I have found:

https://networkmonitor.wiki.zoho.com/Mo ... rvers.html

Doing a snmpwalk I found .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021 range.

I am also having troubles grabbing values from there. reference http://www.oidview.com/mibs/2021/UCD-SNMP-MIB.html.

I have been reading a little bit about using the iLO for monitoring, and perhaps this is an option. But I would like to hear if anyone else has had some success.

Regards,

Shawn

Well, beyond the more HW specific plugins and agents, you could look at using nrpe with a standard set of plugins. What metrics are you looking to check on the remote server?

I am looking for the hardware related information. Sensors, raid health and so. The OS is already monitored via nrpe. I am looking to do the exact same thing you would do with dell openmanage and a nagios plug in but on the hp side.

Also, the hw agents seem to all depend on hp-health smnp agent being installed, which is the core of the issue. The service will not run on Ubuntu 12.10.

Have you contacted hp about this? Without the hp snmp agent, you will have to run local scripts through nrpe to check some of these metrics. Raid can be problematic to monitor as you have to find a plugin that supports the chipset/raid controller.

At this time I have not contacted HP. I will do so, but I don't hold out much hope that they can help. I'm interested to see if anyone else in the community has seen this, or successfully ran this setup.

So I have had some success monitoring via the ILO. I think I will stick with that route for now. If anyone has actually gotten this working on Ubuntu 12.x please pm me.

Shall I close the thread now?

Yes you can.