check_openmanage showing 0 logical drives with OMSA 6.4 and PERC4

[Trond Hasle Amundsen]

Steve Jenkins <stevejenkins at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Trond Hasle Amundsen
> <t.h.amundsen at usit.uio.no> wrote:
>> Interesting.. OMSA is obviously aware of the logical drives, but what
>> does omreport actually say about them? Try running 'omreport storage
>> vdisk controller=<number>'.
>
> Looks like omreport sees the controller, but not the VDisk:
>
> # omreport storage vdisk controller=0
> No virtual disks found

Ok, so there is the reason that check_openmanage doesn't display any
virtual disks. It relies on OMSA for the information, specifically
omreport when used in local mode.

Based on the issue at hand and your reports about OMSA 6.4 and PERC4
controllers on the linux poweredge list, it seems that the latest OMSA
has serious issues with 8th gen Dell servers.

PS. You may have noticed that the plugin doesn't issue an alert when
virtual disks are missing. The reason for this is that it's perfectly
legal and plausible for systems to have no virtual disks. This is the
downside of a plugin that both discovers the components and monitors
them at the same time. It can't give alerts on missing components unless
they should always be present in all servers. A notable exception is
controllers, since being unable to display controllers is a common OMSA
problem. check_openmanage will complain about missing controllers even
though controller-less systems are possible.

Regards,
-- 
Trond H. Amundsen <t.h.amundsen at usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo

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