experience with check_sasraid_megaraid for Dell PERC 4?

[Bo Gusman]

Thanks for your reply, James.

Your recipe for installation was perfect.

I did encounter two problems, 1 of which I solved (though I don't 
understand why I needed to do it.)

Initially running check_sasraid_megaraid from the command line on the 
Nagios box to get the help output complained

    "Can't find utils.pm in @INC"

Comparing that script against many others in the nagios/libexec 
directory showed that many others used utils.pm (which was also in the 
nagios/libexec dir), and they found it just fine. I eventually added 
"use lib /usr/local/groundwork/nagios/libexec" to the script and that 
solved that particular problem. I'm not sure why this was necessary, 
given that all of the scripts (that I checked, in any case), including 
check_sasraid_megaraid were identical in usage of utils.pm.

The second is that when running

    ./check_sasraid_megaraid.pl -H bullwinkle -T megaraid --debug

it fails:

    alert: CRITICAL
    snmp error: Requested table is empty or does not exist
    Megaraid UNKNOWN - could not retrieve snmp table 
.1.3.6.1.4.1.3582.1.1.2.1.3

Initially I had opened ports 161 TCP so I thought that might be the 
problem, but changing them to UDP only changes the speed with which I 
get the failure (the timeout was operative before). I've checked that 
both percsnmpd and snmpd are running and snmpd.conf has the appropriate 
entry.

Do you have other hints that may help me?

Thanks again.

    Bo

jmoseley at corp.xanadoo.com wrote:
> I use that plugin on a number of Dell servers.  First, you've got to make
> sure the RAID controller is either a MegaRAID or AACRAID controller.  More
> than likely, it's the former.
>
> The plugin itself is self explanatory - look at the help output.  What you
> need is to download the Perc SNMP agent from Dell.  Ultimately, you'll
> install the following RPM:
>
> percsnmp-4.09-1.i386.rpm
>
> which will install the percsnmpd daemon...
>
> All you need to do at that point is apply the following line to your
> /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file:
>
> # Dell MegaRAID data will be exported on port 161 by the main snmpd
> pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.3582 /usr/sbin/percmain
>
> Then fire up the percsnmpd daemon and restart snmpd.
>
>
> James Moseley
>
>
>
>
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> Hi all.
>
> We've got two dell servers with PERC4 controllers running CentOS that
> nagios is monitoring quite nicely with the exception of the raid arrays.
>
> Is there anyone that has experience with check_sasraid_megaraid as found
> here:
>
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=1474.html;d=1
>
> Advice, an overview, or a recipe would be very helpful!
>
> Thanks!
>
>     Bo
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> Bo Gusman <mlist at bogusville.us> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> We've got two dell servers with PERC4 controllers running CentOS that
> nagios is monitoring quite nicely with the exception of the raid arrays.
>
> Is there anyone that has experience with check_sasraid_megaraid as found
> here:
>
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=1474.html;d=1
>
> Advice, an overview, or a recipe would be very helpful!
>   


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