Monitoring Dell Openmanage

Hi,

I'd like to use Serverscheck to monitor a few Dell servers disk arrays, and notify me if the array has an error.



Currently I use the Dell supplied 'Array Manager' but noticed you already support certain Dell SNMP monitors (Tempreature, Fans and Power...)



Is it possible to monitor the status of a Dell disk array?

I've tried to configure my own custom SNMP monitors using MIBs from the Dell site with no luck.



I'm not looking to monitor everything, just if a disk or something fails that would be excellent!



If you have any ideas, or settings you wish me to test on a non-critical server, then let me know.



Thank you

Unfortunately it is not possible to support for us all different options from all different hardware vendors.



If you have an OID for a disk that returns a value (for example 0 when OK and 1 when not OK) then it could work.

I would be interested too in monitoring using the Dell Openmanage OIDs.



UKMON if you wanna have a chat about it, and help each other out give me a shout.



Cheers.

I'd like to do the exact same thing. Did either of you ever figure out how to do this?

For Dell PE2950 i have some experience about MIB, and the different OIDs.



Please let me know, which servertype you are using

We're using mainly PE2850's. I'm new to SNMP so I'm confused about all this OID stuff. I've been trying to find the correct OID for the RAID array on one of my 2850's but haven't had any luck.



When I try to put what I think is the correct OID in ServersCheck I get this message:



Status: DOWN?

Error returned: Couldn't retrieve value for OID

Actually I was wrong sorry. The server I'm trying to monitor is an old PE1600SC.

hmm.. with following mib i check the hole system state on a 2950. maybe it works also on a 1600



systemStageGlobalSystemStatus



.1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.2.1



you get an integer value back:



(1 = other, 2 = unknown, 3 = ok, 4 = nonCritical, 5 = critical, 6 = nonRecoverable)



You should also check if snmp service is running and the community name for reading the status.

So should I put the number in exactly like that? In ServersCheck it says that it must end in .0



So do I just add that to the number you listed?

no my oid number doesnt end with a .0



you can try to put the number exactly like i wrote in a post before

I tried that and it's not working. I decided to try it on a PE2850 instead. I created a new OPENMANAGE hardware checkand specified the server.



On the next screen I put in the servers name, (I've also tried the IP address) the community string which is public, the port which is 161 and the OID number that you gave me. When I try and test those settings I get this message:



Status: DOWN?

Error returned: Couldn't retrieve value for OID

I got it working! The problem was that I didn't have the SNMP service configured correctly on the server. Thanks for all your help!!

Does this SystemState OID also work (.1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.2.1) on 1600 and 2850?

Yep, it seemed to work as well.

Since I've setup a couple of my servers with this I get this occasionally:



Reason: Error: Couldn't retrieve value for OID



I get a server down notification message when this happens. Have you experienced this?

This is for user bedee.



I have got it working as well on my PE2900, but I am not sure what is checks. Does it checks failures on RAID, Processor(s), Memory etc ??



Is there any documentation on the systemStageGlobalSystemStatus OID ??



Thanks a lot for the good hint.