Monitoring HP Hardware - NRPE/NSCA on Windows

[Jayson Broughton]

Hey Curtis,

 

I can vouch for the check-hpasm utility that Gerhard recommends.  We run a
shop of 20+ HP servers (all sorts of HP servers) and I use the check-hpasm
utility for our redhat servers.  This utility has saved my neck a few times
when hardware has failed in remote sites.  What I have done was install the
plugin under /usr/nagios/libexec/ and called it from the nagios server via
nrpe.  Although the only problem I do have with the plugin is that at times
it will give false readings on the first check, but cleared on the 2nd
check.  Logs from hpasmcli show nothing, so I would assume it has something
to do with the plugin being called by nrpe and just hiccupping.  I solved
this by setting my notification thresholds for the service to notify via
email after the 3rd check.

 

Here's what a memory module error looks like:

CRITICAL - dimm module 5 @ cartridge 2 needs attention (dimm is degraded)

 

And in a perfect world:

OK - System: `proliant dl585 g1', S/N: 'xxxxxxxxx',ROM:A01 02/14/2007',
hardware working fine

 

Jayson

 

From: Gerhard Lausser [mailto:Gerhard.Lausser at consol.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:57 AM
To: 'Curtis LaMasters'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring HP Hardware - NRPE/NSCA on Windows

 

Hi Curtis,

 

with http://www.consol.com/opensource/nagios/check-hpasm you have two
possibilities

local (linux): the plugin runs on the HP and parses the output of the
hpasmcli command

remote (linux,windows): the plugin runs on the Nagios server and uses SNMP

 

In both cases you need to install the hpasm RPM or the Windows Insight
Management Agents.

 

Gerhard

 


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Von: Curtis LaMasters [mailto:curtislamasters at gmail.com] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2008 23:17
An: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: [Nagios-users] Monitoring HP Hardware - NRPE/NSCA on Windows

What is the best method for doing this.  I would prefer to have some sort of
script that parses information on the remote host on HP hardware.  I have
found a few that use SNMP but I'm not sure how that works with NRPE/NSCA.
For Dell hardware I use check_dell.exe from http://www.itefix.no
<http://www.itefix.no/> .  Anything similar would be great.

Curtis LaMasters
http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
http://www.builtnetworks.com


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