[opennms-discuss] Monitor LSI/MegaRaid controller

[Marcel Fuhrmann]

Hey guys,

does anyone already monitor LSI/MegaRaid controller successfully?

Here some painful facts I've learned:


* MegaRaid provides a tool to extend snmp. But it supports only RedHat. The try to convert/use it with Ubuntu wasn't successful in my case

* we have Supermicro servers from Thomas Krenn AG. They only provide a ready to run Icinga plugin for monitoring...

* There is a command "storcli" which can be used to get Raid/Media health status. So my idea was to extend snmp with the provided information. But I've learned that the snmp user isn't allowed to get data out of this command or more precisely the hardware. If you give more permissions to user snmp, you can run the storcli command, but without getting any data.


Using NRPE monitor to get hopefully the Icinga plugin working or using snmp traps for this scenario isn't a solution I want to use.

So, if you have some experience with LSI/MegaRaid monitoring, please share it with me and the community.


If I find a halfway beautyful solution I will write a wiki article :-)


Good night!

[Michael Schwartzkopff]

Post by Marcel Fuhrmann
Hey guys,
does anyone already monitor LSI/MegaRaid controller successfully?
* MegaRaid provides a tool to extend snmp. But it supports only RedHat. The
try to convert/use it with Ubuntu wasn't successful in my case
* we have Supermicro servers from Thomas Krenn AG. They only provide a ready
to run Icinga plugin for monitoring...
* There is a command "storcli" which can be used to get Raid/Media health
status. So my idea was to extend snmp with the provided information. But
I've learned that the snmp user isn't allowed to get data out of this
command or more precisely the hardware. If you give more permissions to
user snmp, you can run the storcli command, but without getting any data.
Using NRPE monitor to get hopefully the Icinga plugin working or using snmp
traps for this scenario isn't a solution I want to use.
So, if you have some experience with LSI/MegaRaid monitoring, please share
it with me and the community.
If I find a halfway beautyful solution I will write a wiki article :-)
Good night!

Hi,

we use the nagios / icinga script and do an extension of snmpd.conf. Like:

extend megaraid /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_raid.pl


From the monitoring system you can request the status with

$ snmpwalk 172.16.0.5 nsExtension | grep megaraid

Michael