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Hi,

Im having HP Smart array in different segment in windows 2003 server, wanted to monitor through remotely in Nagios server using this plugin. I dont have any option to mention the Hostname/ipaddress of the HP Smart Array and im getting below parameters.

check_cciss-1.10 -v -p -e ( no option to point the HP Array IP/host details)

please help me on this.


Regards,
Rajkumar M.

Not all checks are remote, some are intended to be used with NRPE or NSClient++, it appears as though that plugin is a perl script designed to be used with NRPE... I don't believe this plugin actually supports windows either, I think it's only for Linux.

We use a combination of the Windows Eventlog (using Nagios Event Log) and check_hp to monitor our HP servers hardware. In order to use check_hp you need to install the HP SIM utility and configure the SNMP daemon service.

Im having HP Array Configuration utility, does it work or only need to go with HP SIM. Other than this anything need to be configured in nsc client or script to fetch information.

Thanks!
Regards,
Raj.

With the HP Raid utility I believe you can log it into the Windows Event Log and then use the Nagios Event Log Client to capture and send that information back, I don't know if you can use a script with NSclient to extract that information out... I'm not that familiar with the utility.

Hi gm_rajkumar, I'm running some ProLiant DL360s and and DL380s and I use the following script in NRPE to monitor their arrays:
You'll need to run first to find out the exact "label" for your array and then you can replace the with your array designation. I'm not sure if this is the answer you're looking for but if not it might point you in the direction you need to go.

Thanks,

Joe B

Hi jsmurphy,

Are you sure wanted to install SIM on this device since this is Storage device, however we have already installed Smart array Utility over this. I need to check with vendor whether its possible to do this.

My query is wanted to see Smart array disk details, its running on remote machine. Im having the nagios xi in my laptop. Thanks!

Regards,
Raj.

I am now profoundly confused. Are we talking storage device as in an IBRIX filer? Or storage device as in a DL300 windows/linux server with a lot of storage bays?

It sounds like you have a server with a lot of storage bays, something like the DL300 series Joe was talking about. But it sounds like you are running Windows instead of Linux on them?

If you are running windows then all I can do is reiterate what I have said before, use the Nagios Windows Event Log utility with the SMART array tool OR the check_hp plugin with HP SIM and SNMP enabled. Both methods will work for monitoring a HP SMART array on a windows system.

If you are running linux follow jbruyets instructions, they sounds pretty spot on to me.

Hi Jsmurphy,

I am using linux RHEL on Nagios XI and HP smart array running on windows 2008 server. I have already installed Smart Array Configuration Utility, afore you said that can able to monitor thru the Nagios Windows Event Log utility with the SMART array tool. Please update me the steps to do that. Also i wanted to know without SIM is it possible to monitor this? hope i cleared you better, let me know if you need further clarification on this.

Regards
Raj.

I can point you in the direction of the Nagios event log utility, http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... og/details.

But I don't think I am going to be much help on the configuration front... most of the HP smart array messages we are monitoring are ported over from our old Tivoli infrastructure that had been in place for ~15 years, there's a lot of legacy stuff and I don't even know how much of it is still relevant as I'm still gutting it. I would probably begin by just capturing any critical or warning messages by the SMART array utility that gets event logged.

You can use HP SIM with the check_hp plugin to get the full overall hardware health... so it will tell you if a fan, power supply, smart array, etc, fail. Honestly at this juncture you should just be trying out these utilities and approaches we've suggested on a test machine, once you are familiar you can then start asking specific questions that we can answer and help you with.