We have IBM SANs, the only way to monitor them is to run their storage management software on a separate system which then provides SNMP and email alerting. Nothing on the SANs themselves.

cheers, Phil

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On 8/09/2011 at 7:49 PM, in message <b749ed52d5866803eb4e0ce182ff8e3e at siag.nu>, <ulric at siag.nu> wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:32:43 +0200 (CEST), martin.flemming at desy.de wrote:

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Hi !

Did somebody know when and why www.deadcat.net is gone :-(

It must have happened very recently, because my colleague and I

visited

deadcat yesterday looking for scripts to monitor a Compellent SAN.

The reason is probably that Quest have no interest whatsoever in Big

Brother.

As for the SAN, the only way to monitor Compellent is to use SMI-S and there are no scripts for that for Big Brother, Hobbit, Nagios or anything else. Nobody seems to be using SMI-S for that purpose.

Ulric

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On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:30:49 +1000, Phil Crooker wrote:

We have IBM SANs, the only way to monitor them is to run their storage management software on a separate system which then provides SNMP and email alerting. Nothing on the SANs themselves.

Using the management software as a proxy to get the information would have been fine, but the response we got from Compellent/Dell was basically that it is impossible to do what we want and that they have no suggestions.

Which is a shame because it is a nice SAN otherwise, but we can't rely on unmonitorable equipment.

Ulric