I run PRTG Network Monitor (I’ll do a separate post on that later) to monitor all the servers, connections, services etc. This runs really well and notifies me if anything bad happens. It also has a great little iPhone app, but I don’t have an iPhone, yet.
Anyway, I really wanted to monitor all the disks in the raid arrays (Hardware Raid) on my servers, and if one went down, I wanted to be able to replace it straight away. The only option on the PTRG Network Monitor that would even come close to doing this was a custom SNMP sensor and all I needed was the OID for the raid card, or even the individual drive bays, but I just couldn’t seem to find them. I used SNMPWalk and GetIF and came close I think, but just no cigar.
I came across these OID’s, but they didn’t seem to work:
- System Status: 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.6.1.3.0
- RAID Status:1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3
.2.2.1.1.6
So, I gave up on this (if anyone has any pointers for a P400i on a DL320S and some DL380 G5’s please let me know) and instead looked into setting up the HP Insight Event Notifier on each server (download it here - cp013067). As discussed before I use the ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) to keep my servers up to date with all the latest drivers etc. With this already done, all I had to do was install the HP Management Agents on my servers and I was away.
Once installed it’s simple a case of running through the setup and entering the SMTP server and your email address and then selecting which events you would like to be notified about. I left them all selected and as I receive emails on my phone, I’m kept up to date pretty quickly. I ran a quick test by inserting and then removing a UBS stick and within seconds I had email notifications of this in my inbox.
I can also access to System Management Hompepage on each machine on port 2381 to check the status (I can obviously use the built-in iLO also).
