Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I'll have another go at this later today. Since I know you've worked with Proliants before I was figuring you wouldn't need to look at the docs - maybe I'll post any future questions to the HP Forums. Thanks for your help. Ive worked on a few Proliants but Im no expert on them... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...
On May 18, 2005, at 4:10 pm, A. Khattri wrote: You could run netstat -an --udp and see if anything is listening on UDP port 161. If you dont have that software, maybe the net-snmp package would suffice? Right, thanks. That shows nothing. I've never seen anything like that. According to page 12 of the HOWTO http://tinyurl.com/7h8dr the `cmaidad` agent collects data from cciss/cpqarray drivers, so surely that hadles everything for me? `cmaidad` is running, and I believe my SCSI array is of the cciss type. Looking at the docs, maybe you need an SNMP agent running for the peer agents to send information to? I say this because of this quote: During installation, the Peer Agents are configured to start automatically when the SNMP agent is running. Linux run-level configuration tools can be used to change Peer Agent configurations. They should be started after the SNMP agent snmpd is started and should be killed after snmpd is killed. This seems to imply that there should be an snmpd-type process running. It looks like I've been completely misunderstanding this. I don't really understand how the peer agents communicate with the SNMP agents, in that case. I'll have another go at this later today. Since I know you've worked with Proliants before I was figuring you wouldn't need to look at the docs - maybe I'll post any future questions to the HP Forums. Thanks for your help. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I've never seen anything like that. According to page 12 of the HOWTO http://tinyurl.com/7h8dr the `cmaidad` agent collects data from cciss/cpqarray drivers, so surely that hadles everything for me? `cmaidad` is running, and I believe my SCSI array is of the cciss type. Looking at the docs, maybe you need an SNMP agent running for the peer agents to send information to? I say this because of this quote: During installation, the Peer Agents are configured to start automatically when the SNMP agent is running. Linux run-level configuration tools can be used to change Peer Agent configurations. They should be started after the SNMP agent snmpd is started and should be killed after snmpd is killed. This seems to imply that there should be an snmpd-type process running. You could run netstat -an --udp and see if anything is listening on UDP port 161. If you dont have that software, maybe the net-snmp package would suffice? How do I get `snmptrapd` to query this community? Is that the right thing to do? Sure, you can have it listen (UDP port 162) for SNMP traps - but you will need something to send traps to it since it is passive. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I believe that the way to handle this is by SNMP, and that the HP agents are SNMP agents which can be queried by SNMP software on my machine. I've never messed with SNMP before, so does this sound right? Is the RAID array done in hardware? If it is, then maybe there is something you can set in the RAID BIOS to enable SNMP monitoring? What does lspci show? (Emerge pciutils if you dont have lspci). Does anyone have a simple configuration, please, to log everything from the HP agents to a the snmptrapd log - I think that once I understand how to do that, shifting notifications to email should be pretty easy, but at the moment I don't really have a clue what an SNMP community is. A community string is basically like a password - you set it on the service being monitored so SNMP software with the string can connect and query... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...
On May 16, 2005, at 3:01 pm, A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005, Stroller wrote: I believe that the way to handle this is by SNMP, and that the HP agents are SNMP agents which can be queried by SNMP software on my machine. I've never messed with SNMP before, so does this sound right? Is the RAID array done in hardware? Yes, it's a Proliant 6500. If it is, then maybe there is something you can set in the RAID BIOS to enable SNMP monitoring? I've never seen anything like that. According to page 12 of the HOWTO http://tinyurl.com/7h8dr the `cmaidad` agent collects data from cciss/cpqarray drivers, so surely that hadles everything for me? `cmaidad` is running, and I believe my SCSI array is of the cciss type. What does lspci show? (Emerge pciutils if you dont have lspci). $ lspci :00:02.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface :00:0b.0 PCI Hot-plug controller: Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller (rev 04) :00:0c.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System Management Controller :00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14) :00:0d.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14) :00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 7a) :00:12.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 450NX - 82454NX/84460GX PCI Expander Bridge (rev 02) :00:14.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 450NX - 82454NX/84460GX PCI Expander Bridge (rev 02) :04:01.0 PCI bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 07) :04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) :04:04.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01) :04:0b.0 PCI Hot-plug controller: Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller (rev 04) :05:00.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart-2/P RAID Controller (rev 03) Does anyone have a simple configuration, please, to log everything from the HP agents to a the snmptrapd log - I think that once I understand how to do that, shifting notifications to email should be pretty easy, but at the moment I don't really have a clue what an SNMP community is. A community string is basically like a password - you set it on the service being monitored so SNMP software with the string can connect and query... Right so my agents configuration is like this: $ sudo cat /etc/hpasmrc # install mode export CMASILENT=YES # kernel version export CMAKERNELVERSION=2.6.11-gentoo-r4 #local rw community string export CMALOCALHOSTRWCOMMSTR=proliant #local ro community string export CMALOCALHOSTROCOMMSTR= #rw authorized management stations (multiples allowed) export CMAMGMTSTATIONRWIPORDNS=127.0.0.1 #rw authorized mangamane station community string (multiplies allowed) export CMAMGMTSTATIONRWCOMMSTR=proliant ... How do I get `snmptrapd` to query this community? Is that the right thing to do? Thanks for your help, Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
