On 17/03/09 02:01, Kevin Keane wrote:
> The way the check_dell plugin works that I'm using to monitor Dell 
> servers is that it bypasses SNMP altogether, and simply calls Dell's 
> reporting utility and parses out the results. As long as there is a 
> similar IBM utility, maybe you can use that instead of SNMP?

yes, there is one: ipssend.exe, but sometimes it says, there is no
controller, but I know, there is one.


> Klaus Umbach wrote:
> > 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
> > :-)
> >   
> 
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