Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
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I know that in HP-land where you have hpacucli, you can run one of several tools available either via Xymonton or Deadcat to get the data you desire.
On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Larry Barber wrote:
Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
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I know that in HP-land where you have hpacucli, you can run one of several tools available either via Xymonton or Deadcat to get the data you desire.
If you are using Windows software RAID, you could monitor the event log to see if a disk fails. Unfortunately, I don't know what messages might be relevant. If you are using hardware RAID from HP or Dell (probably others as well), you can use the vendor-supplied agents to monitor the system via SNMP using devmon.
/Johan
From: Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] Sent: den 2 november 2010 16:09 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] Disk failures
Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
Yes, I'm aware of that, but our security people get a serious case of hives over SNMP. If there was some other way to do it, it would be a lot easier.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Johan Sjöberg < johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
If you are using Windows software RAID, you could monitor the event log to see if a disk fails. Unfortunately, I don’t know what messages might be relevant.
If you are using hardware RAID from HP or Dell (probably others as well), you can use the vendor-supplied agents to monitor the system via SNMP using devmon.
/Johan
*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] *Sent:* den 2 november 2010 16:09 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [xymon] Disk failures
Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
If you were logged onto the server, how would *you* detect that a RAID disk had failed? Now see if you can get a powershell or perl script to do the same. (You are not limited to these. Use any scripting tool that is accessable and easy for you) Translate the results into red/yellow/green with a little script logic, and add some useful information if you like. Pass this to bbwin, and you got a RAID test. Check Xymonton for some examples of similar tests.
Regards Vernon
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of that, but our security people get a serious case of hives over SNMP. If there was some other way to do it, it would be a lot easier.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Johan Sjöberg < johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
If you are using Windows software RAID, you could monitor the event log to see if a disk fails. Unfortunately, I don’t know what messages might be relevant.
If you are using hardware RAID from HP or Dell (probably others as well), you can use the vendor-supplied agents to monitor the system via SNMP using devmon.
/Johan
*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] *Sent:* den 2 november 2010 16:09 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [xymon] Disk failures
Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
To tell you the truth I have no idea, I'm not a Windows guy and have no idea how Windows does things like that.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:
If you were logged onto the server, how would *you* detect that a RAID disk had failed? Now see if you can get a powershell or perl script to do the same. (You are not limited to these. Use any scripting tool that is accessable and easy for you) Translate the results into red/yellow/green with a little script logic, and add some useful information if you like. Pass this to bbwin, and you got a RAID test. Check Xymonton for some examples of similar tests.
Regards Vernon
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of that, but our security people get a serious case of hives over SNMP. If there was some other way to do it, it would be a lot easier.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Johan Sjöberg < johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
If you are using Windows software RAID, you could monitor the event log to see if a disk fails. Unfortunately, I don’t know what messages might be relevant.
If you are using hardware RAID from HP or Dell (probably others as well), you can use the vendor-supplied agents to monitor the system via SNMP using devmon.
/Johan
*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] *Sent:* den 2 november 2010 16:09 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [xymon] Disk failures
Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
Hehehe. Sounds like we suffer from the same problem. Although, I don't really "suffer" from Windoze ignorance, I quite enjoy it. :-)
In a previous contract, I found a Windoze guy who could program in something on Windoze. No idea what, it may have been perl, it may have been powershell. I showed him how to write scripts, and integrate them with bb (bbwin in his case), and off he went. We started monitoring all sorts of stuff using his scripts.
I suggest you go chat to your Windoze mob, and see if you have such a guy in your team. If you speak bash, you could always install Cygwin on your windows boxes, and then create bash scripts to do the same. Of course, you might find yourself up against the cause of great inefficiency - Corporate Policy
Cheers Vernon
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:
To tell you the truth I have no idea, I'm not a Windows guy and have no idea how Windows does things like that.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:
If you were logged onto the server, how would *you* detect that a RAID disk had failed? Now see if you can get a powershell or perl script to do the same. (You are not limited to these. Use any scripting tool that is accessable and easy for you) Translate the results into red/yellow/green with a little script logic, and add some useful information if you like. Pass this to bbwin, and you got a RAID test. Check Xymonton for some examples of similar tests.
Regards Vernon
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of that, but our security people get a serious case of hives over SNMP. If there was some other way to do it, it would be a lot easier.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Johan Sjöberg < johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
If you are using Windows software RAID, you could monitor the event log to see if a disk fails. Unfortunately, I don’t know what messages might be relevant.
If you are using hardware RAID from HP or Dell (probably others as well), you can use the vendor-supplied agents to monitor the system via SNMP using devmon.
/Johan
*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] *Sent:* den 2 november 2010 16:09 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [xymon] Disk failures
Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
It depends on your RAID. For hardware RAID-cards the vendors often supply CLI-tools to query the status of your RAIDs, e.g.
- 3ware has tw_cli
- Areca has as CLI too (called cli32|cli64)
- Adaptec has arcconf (included in Adaptec Storage Manager ASM -- at least on Linux you do not have to install the complete beast to use it) Note that Adaptec-controllers are available as IBMservRAID and probably others too.
As suggested in an othe reply you have to write an extension (powershell or whatever) to wrap the output of the CLI-utility.
HTH, Thomas
On 11/02/2010 04:51 PM, Larry Barber wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of that, but our security people get a serious case of hives over SNMP. If there was some other way to do it, it would be a lot easier.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Johan Sjöberg < johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
If you are using Windows software RAID, you could monitor the event log to see if a disk fails. Unfortunately, I don’t know what messages might be relevant.
If you are using hardware RAID from HP or Dell (probably others as well), you can use the vendor-supplied agents to monitor the system via SNMP using devmon.
/Johan
*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] *Sent:* den 2 november 2010 16:09 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [xymon] Disk failures
Can Hobbit detect when a RAID disk fails on a Windows box? If so, how does it show up?
Thanks, Larry Barber
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alessandro.tinivelli＠monrif.net
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johan.sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se
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