On 16/03/09 10:07, Kevin Keane wrote:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/tntnagiosplugin/Windows SNMP is really 
> not all that useful in my experience. I have a feeling that Microsoft 
> would like it to go away in favor of their proprietary MOM. What you may 
> be able to use to get to hard disk failure information is WMI.

I asked the IBM OIDs of the IBM Director, it is not a specific windows
issue, SNMP is not helpfull here. :-(

> In fact, 
> I wrote a plugin that checks the SMART information (not RAID, though) on 
> either one host, or all workstations in a domain (it will need 
> appropriate permissions, which translates to either administrator access 
> or the Local System account). You can find that plugin in my 
> tnt_nagios_plugins project on SourceForge. I'll be happy to create a 
> plugin to check the IBM raid controller as long as you can provide me 
> with the needed documentation and either do the testing for me or give 
> me access to a development server for testing.

If I knew where to get this information, I could write the plugins myself
:-)

-
        Klaus

> 
> Klaus Umbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How can I monitor the hardware in IBM servers running Windows, especially
> > the physical harddrives?
> >
> > I can't see anything via SNMP that makes sense and the IBM Director Agents
> > sends no traps if a drive fails.
> >
> > I played around with check_serveraid, changed the ssh-stuff to winexe,
> > but I don't like that solution because it needs an administrative account
> > to execute ipssend.exe AND it doesn't work an all servers (sometimes it
> > says "Found 0 IBM ServeRAID controller(s).", which is definitly a lie!)
> > Before that inconsistency I even thought about compiling it with pp and
> > run it via NRPE.
> >
> > My current workaround is checking the application-eventlog and filter for
> > the source substr:ServeRAID.
> >
> > Has anybody found a better solution?
> >
> > Cheers
> >     Klaus
> >
> >   
> 
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