check_openmanage - Feature request

[Russell Kackley]

I recently downloaded and started using the Nagios plugin 
check_openmanage to provide information on our Dell PowerEdge servers to 
Nagios. check_openmanage works very well for us, but there is one thing 
that I would like to see added. Another possibility is that other 
check_openmanage users could point me to a way to accomplish what I want 
to do using the existing code.

We have two PowerEdge 2950 servers, named s1 and s2. Each server has a 
PERC 6/E card installed in them. We also have a PowerVault MD1000 
storage unit. Both servers are connected to the MD1000. s1 is our 
primary server so we boot it first and Dell OMSA reports that the 
physical disks are "Online", which is what we want. s2 is our backup 
server and we boot that second. For this server, Dell OMSA reports that 
the physical disk status is "Non-Critical" and the state is "Foreign". 
This is ok for us, but the problem is that check_openmanage sees the 
"Non-Critical" status and reports a Warning for the physical disks. I 
would like check_openmanage to ignore the "Non-Critical" status when the 
state is "Foreign", preferably via a blacklist option, e.g., 
pdisk_foreign. I think that this is similar to the blacklist option 
pdisk_cert, in which check_openmanage ignores the "Non-Critical" status 
when a disk is not certified by Dell. Note that I did investigate the 
blacklist item pdisk and the "--check storage=0" option, but my 
understanding of those options is that they suppress all checks of the 
disks, which is not what I want.

Do the users of check_openmanage 1) have any suggestions for how I can 
tell check_openmanage to ignore the "Non-Critical"/"Foreign" state of 
the disks, or 2) think that this would be a useful feature to add to 
check_openmanage?

-- 
Russell Kackley
Subaru Telescope
Hilo, Hawaii


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