check_openmanage - Feature request

[Russell Kackley]

On 08/15/2011 11:46 PM, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote:
> Russell Kackley<rkackley at naoj.org>  writes:
>
>> 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?
> Hi Russel,
>
> This would be a nice feature to add. Please try the latest development
> version (3.7.1-beta2), it includes the new blacklisting keyword
> 'pdisk_foreign' as you suggest:
>
>    http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html#download
>
> Regards,
Thanks, Trond. I tried check_openmanage 3.7.1-beta2 and it works 
perfectly. Thanks also for the quick response.

-- 
Russell Kackley
Subaru Telescope
Hilo, Hawaii


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