HP DL380 G5 RAID Status

[matthew]

I installed ProxMox on the HP DL380G5. Is there a way to monitor raid status? Is there anyway to get emailed alarms etc? It uses a Smart Array P400/512Mb w/BBC.

 

[svendsen]

Hi Matthew,

I'm quite interested into HP Server monitoring as well (not only RAID).
What I have done to monitor my servers is:

Adding HP PSP repository: (/etc/apt/sources.list)
deb http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/ProLiantSupportPack/ squeeze current/non-free

After that you can install HP utils (fx hpacucli) by apt-get.

You can now use this script for monitoring and emailing:
http://www.olafrv.com/?p=588

You can also install cciss-vol-status which is part of Debian repository. With this util you can get current status out of your RAID (cciss-vol-status /dev/cciss/c*d0)

Here are some links:

http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant
http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins#cciss

Hope you find some of it useful


- Michael

 

[svendsen]

Hey again

Just found this little nice perl script:
http://www.kudos.be/hppro_hw_monitor

If you install hp-health and hpacucli from the PSP repo you have the required components. This script checks both controller/raid, memory, fans, PSU, etc.
Remember to change the paths in the script (in my case hpacucli didn't point to the right path) Also the script could be optimized/cleaned, but you can use it for inspiration anyway

- michael

 

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[matthew]

Noticed this in Google search:

smartctl -d cciss,0 -a /dev/cciss/c0d0

Drives seem to be 0 - 7.

If one drive in raid6 array has failed will smart status go from OK to something else? Based on this I can easily script it to email me.