Re: hp server hardware monitoring

[Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net>]

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:28:10AM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> [...]
> What may be relevant too is that on the g6 server Debian uses the
> CCISS drivers for the raid hardware, the volume shows up as
> /dev/cciss/c0d0
> On the g7 and g8 hardware the raid volume simply shows up as /dev/sda

cciss has been superseded by hpsa, "The hpsa driver is intended to supplant the
cciss driver for newer Smart Array controllers.", cf.
<https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt>.

> How can I get this to work under a g7 or g8 server. Do I need a newer
> version of the package of do I need a different package?

I generally avoid installing third-party tools on the bulk of my
servers, and for simple monitoring the packages cciss-vol-status and
nagios-plugins-standard from Debian will suffice:

root@vz02:~# lsmod | grep -e cciss -e hpsa
hpsa                   50787  2
root@vz02:~# cciss_vol_status /dev/sda
/dev/sda: (Smart Array P420i) RAID 5 Volume 0 status: OK.
root@vz02:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_raid
WARNING: cciss: No Smart Array Adapters were found on this machine
root@vz02:~# modprobe sg
root@vz02:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_raid
OK: cciss:[/dev/sda: (Smart Array P420i) RAID 5 Volume 0 status: OK, /dev/sda: (Smart Array P420i) RAID 5 Volume 0 status: OK]; smartctl:[/dev/sg0#0,/dev/sg0#1,/dev/sg0#2,/dev/sg0#3,/dev/sg0#4,/dev/sg0#5,/dev/sg0#6,/dev/sg1#0,/dev/sg1#1,/dev/sg1#2,/dev/sg1#3,/dev/sg1#4,/dev/sg1#5,/dev/sg1#6: OK]

HTH,
Flo