Dell RAID Configuration Details

[CloudOps]

Hello All,

is there any plugin or script which will Pull information about RAID? We want to get information about RAID on windows and Linux server are configured like RAID 1, RAID 5.

Can anyone guide me to configure?

Thanks,

[rkennedy]

Have you taken a look at our exchange to see if any of the plugins there will work for you?
https://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?o ... ell%20raid

I do see quite a few of them, but varying based on controllers.

[CloudOps]

Have you taken a look at our exchange to see if any of the plugins there will work for you?
https://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?o ... ell%20raid

I do see quite a few of them, but varying based on controllers.

I have checked it, but none of them showing information about RAID, only output i am getting is RAID : OK. I need to get details on which RAID server is configured.


Thanks,

[rkennedy]

Are these machines using hardware raid or software raid?

[CloudOps]

Are these machines using hardware raid or software raid?

All machines are using Hardware RAID

[rkennedy]

Got it, this is a bit more tricky as it'll only appear as one disk to your system.

Can you provide an output from the CLI, that states what raid one of the machines is running? This will vary based on different types of raid cards as each one has different utilities. Once you provide the output I should be able to script something out for you.

For example an Adaptec RAID Card will output something similar to this (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-chec ... sk-health/) -

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Logical device information
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Logical device number 0
   Logical device name                      : RAID10-A
   Block Size of member drives              : 512 Bytes
   RAID level                               : 10

[CloudOps]

Got it, this is a bit more tricky as it'll only appear as one disk to your system.

Can you provide an output from the CLI, that states what raid one of the machines is running? This will vary based on different types of raid cards as each one has different utilities. Once you provide the output I should be able to script something out for you.

For example an Adaptec RAID Card will output something similar to this (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-chec ... sk-health/) -

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----------------------------------------------------------------------
Logical device information
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Logical device number 0
   Logical device name                      : RAID10-A
   Block Size of member drives              : 512 Bytes
   RAID level                               : 10

Hi Kennedy,

We are using windows servers, we have installed Dell OSMA, And configured check_openmanage, which will give output like this :

[root@VM-NAGIOSXI-TEST libexec]# ./check_openmanage -H 172.26.2.12 -C DELL
OK - System: 'PowerEdge R420', 8 GB ram (2 dimms), 1 logical drives, 2 physical drives

My requirement is like If we check the health of server, it should give information of RAID on dashboard, so that we can identify which server is configured on which RAID.

[bwallace]

Thanks for that info, to get the info you're looking for is probably going to require a custom plugin. What type of RAID cards are in place? Maybe there are plugins available for such, like the example posted earlier for the Adaptec cards?

[CloudOps]

Thanks for that info, to get the info you're looking for is probably going to require a custom plugin. What type of RAID cards are in place? Maybe there are plugins available for such, like the example posted earlier for the Adaptec cards?

Hi bwallance,

sorry for the late reply. We are using Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC). Almost all servers are Windows, only 2-3 are linux. Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

[rkennedy]

Can you provide an output from the CLI, that states what raid one of the machines is running? This will vary based on different types of raid cards as each one has different utilities. Once you provide the output I should be able to script something out for you.

I can't find an option with Dells openmanage to show the raid level as Adaptec would. Are you able to show the raid level using Powershell at all? I can't do much if openmanage doesn't support showing the raid level.